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Irish Soda Bread

A traditional Irish bread leavened with baking soda. The round loaves have a slightly coarse texture. Buttermilk or sour milk often is an ingredient, along with currants or raisins and sometimes caraway seed.

Recipes

  1. Irish Soda Bread

    This low-sodium yeast bread has dried currants and raisins. Enjoy it toasted for breakfast or as a side dish for soups and salads.

  2. Irish Soda Bread

    For a whole wheat version of this classic quick bread, substitute 1 cup whole wheat flour for 1 cup of the all-purpose flour.

  3. Irish Soda Bread

    Traditionally, Irish bakers made this classic, sweet quick bread in white or brown loaves. Our recipe is for brown bread.

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Articles

  1. Loaves of Luck: Classic Irish Soda Bread

    Mon, 12 Mar 2012

    If you’ve ever had a steaming bowl of lamb stew or a hearty plate of corned beef and cabbage at an Irish pub, it’s likely your meal was served with soda bread. Soda bread, as the name implies, is a type of quick bread that bakes up with a crunchy, golden brown exterior and a surprisingly moist, ...

  2. How To Coupon: March Sale Forecast

    Fri, 2 Mar 2012

    … one day that he’s Irish. This is also a great time to stock up on baking soda, which will be discounted for Irish soda bread . Easter is in early April, so coupons and sales for Easter candy and egg decorating supplies are already available …

  3. St. Patrick’s Day Trivia Challenge: Feeling Lucky?

    Thu, 14 Mar 2013

    That’s what you’ve got to love about the great American melting pot: even if you’re not an O’Brien or O’Malley, you can still get into the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day. (Because for so many of us, we basically just assume that there’s some Irish on our family tree somewhere anyway.)   You may not ...

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Food Blogs We Love

  1. Well Bread: SpyMom's Favorite Irish Soda Bread Recipe

    Tue, 6 Mar 2012

    When it came time, recently, for SpyMom to make Irish Soda Bread for our family St. Patrick's Day Party (which takes place on the same day as the Belmar St. Patrick's Day Parade , which is often a few weeks before the big day, but I digress), she wanted to find a new recipe. A good recipe. And so ...

  2. Baker's Dozen: A Batch of Sweet Links!

    Fri, 15 Mar 2013

    Master-piece of cake: cakes that look like famous works of art . OMG: Peekaboo shamrock cake tutorial. Because it's almost St. Patrick's Day: SpyMom's Irish Soda Bread . Once upon a time, I got really gross with Irish Soda Bread . Enjoy! A different way to be green for St. Patrick's Day: avocado ...

  3. Gluten-Free Soda Bread Bun Rolls- not exactly Irish

    Sun, 17 Mar 2013

    … A day to celebrate. And listen for song birds. And bake something earthy, simple and subtly sweet. I've made Irish soda bread every Spring for thirty years. This year I felt inspired to make mini-soda breads. A kind of soda bread bun …

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