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Classic Irish Soda Bread takes 15 minutes to prepare.

Classic Irish Soda Bread takes 45 minutes to cook.

Classic Irish Soda Bread makes 16 servings.

The ingredients for Classic Irish Soda Bread are:

3 cups (15 ounces) all-purpose flour
1 cup (4 ounces) cake flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1? teaspoons baking soda
1? teaspoons cream of tartar
1? teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, plus 1 tablespoon melted butter for crust
1? cups buttermilk

Here is how you make Classic Irish Soda Bread:

1. Adjust an oven rack to the upper-middle position and heat the oven to 400?.2. Whisk the flours, sugar, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt together in a large bowl. Work the softened butter into the dry ingredients with a fork or your fingertips until the texture resembles coarse crumbs. 3. If you have butterrmilk use 1.5 cups of buttermilk if not add 1.5 Tsps of lemon juice to milk, stianr well and let sit at room temperature for 10 minutes. The evidence that it worked is the small curdled bits in the milk.4. Add the buttermilk and stir with a fork just until the dough begins to come together. Turn out onto a flour-coated work surface; knead just until the dough becomes cohesive and bumpy, 12 to 14 turns. (Do not knead until the dough is smooth, or the bread will be tough.)5. Pat the dough into a round about 6 inches in diameter and 2 inches high; place on a greased or parchment-lined baking sheet. Score the dough by cutting a cross shape on the top of the loaf.6. Bake until the loaf is golden brown and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, or the internal temperature reaches 180?, 40 to 45 minutes. Remove the loaf from the oven and (if desired ) brush the surface with the melted butter; cool to room temperature, 30 to 40 minutes.Serving Size: 1 loaf or about 16 slicesNumber of Servings: 16Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user RONINJ422.

The nutritional information for Classic Irish Soda Bread is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 16
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 144.7

• Total Fat: 2.5 g
• Cholesterol: 5.8 mg
• Sodium: 350.1 mg
• Total Carbs: 26.6 g
• Dietary Fiber: 0.9 g
• Protein: 4.0 g