Traditional Irish Soda Bread by B Innes

The most traditional Irish Soda Bread is simply Soft Wheat Flour, a little baking soda ,a little salt, and buttermilk. Soft wheat has less gluten which made it easier to mill than hard wheat. In this recipe we used Swans Down Cake Flour, which is soft winter wheat. The raisins are an option and are not traditional, however my wife…

Irish Soda Bread by BearNakedBaker

Irish Fruit Bread (Barm Brack) by Salad Foodie

Barm Brack is an Irish fruit bread eaten on St. Brigid’s Feast Day, February 1. Golden raisins predominate, along with citron or other dried fruit. It has a hint of spice and makes an excellent breakfast bread. The bread machine makes light work of making this bread, but due to the higher sugar content it is best made on the dough…

Weekly Make and Bake Rustic Bread by Karen

This is the trick ~ make up a large batch of rustic artisan style bread dough, store it and then bake a loaf each day you need fresh bread, amazing but true! This is a "hodge podge" of old fashioned English and French rustic bread recipes; the bread dough is made up ahead of time and stored (in the old days) in an earthenware crock or…