Riley Family Soda Bread Recipes

RILEY FAMILY SODA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray an 8 inch round cake pan with cooking spray.
• 2. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt.
• 3. In a small bowl, combine buttermilk, applesauce, and butter.
• 4. Add applesauce mixture to flour mixture.
• 5. Stir until mixture forms a ball.
• 6. Turn out dough onto well-floured surface; knead in raisins. If not adding raisins, knead 10 times.
• 7. Pat dough into a 6" round.
• 8. Place dough in prepared pan. Cut a cross in the top of the dough, 1/4 inch deep, with the tip of sharp knife.
• 9. Brush top of dough with milk.
• 10. Bake 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 11. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Invert onto wire rack; turn right side up. Cool completely before slicing.

MARILYN O'REILLY'S IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Set a rack in the middle level of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt and stir well to mix.
• Add the butter and rub in until the butter disappears into the dry ingredients.
• Stir in the caraway seeds if used and the raisins.
• In a small bowl, whisk the buttermilk and egg together and mix into the dough mixture with a rubber spatula.
• Turn the dough out on a floured work surface and fold it over on itself several times, shaping it into a round loaf. Transfer the loaf to one cookie sheet or jelly roll pan covered with parchment or foil and cut a cross in the top. Bake for 15 minutes then reduce heat to 350 and cook for about 15 to 20 minutes more, until well colored and a toothpick plunged into the center emerges clean.
• Cool the soda bread on a rack and serve with plenty of sweet butter and bitter orange marmalade.