Happy St. Patrick’s Day

This is a ridiculously easy and scrumptiously delicious Irish Soda Bread recipe:

Ingredients

4 c flour

1 Tbs sugar

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

¾ tsp baking soda

1 c raisins

2 Tbs caraway seeds

2 c buttermilk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a round casserole dish. 

Mix well the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda in a large bowl. Add the raisins and caraway seed.  Mix into flour with your hands.  Add the buttermilk and mix well.  Turn onto floured surface and knead until smooth (about 5 minutes).  Add dough and cut an X into the top.

Bake 50 minutes to 1 hour (depending on whether you use convection oven).  Remove from oven and rub the top with butter; sprinkle with sugar.  Let sit for 10 minutes.

Served warm with heaps of butter.  Delicious!