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Soda Bread

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A traditional Irish light and sweet bread made with soda and wheat flour.

Soda Bread

📷 Jim Lukach — CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

⏱️ 30 min prep + 45 min cottura · 8 porzioni · facile

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Ingredients

  • 500 g of wheat flour
  • 250 ml of cold milk
  • 1 tablespoon of baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt
  • 100 g of butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 tablespoon of honey
  • 1 tablespoon of water

Method

  1. Mix the flour, soda, and salt, and set aside.
  2. In another bowl, mix the butter, water, honey, sugar, and egg.
  3. Gradually add the cold milk to the butter mixture, forming a smooth dough.
  4. Add the flour and mix until you have a slightly sticky dough.
  5. Form a ball of dough and thread a piece of string through it.
  6. Let the bread rise for 30 minutes in a warm place.
  7. Preheat the oven to 200°C and bake the bread for 45-50 minutes.
  8. Allow the bread to cool before slicing.

The story

Soda bread has a long history in Ireland, where it was traditionally made as a simple and easy-to-prepare economical bread.

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