Diane's Irish Soda Bread with pic

Clay Q

Less than one week away from St. Patrick's day and so I wanted to share this recipe. It's very good, not the bland soda bread you sometimes run into.[p]Diane's Irish Soda Bread[p]4 cups bread flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon fine grated orange rind[p]4 Tablespoons butter, room temp.[p]1 cup dried currants in a glass measuring cup soaking in Jack Daniels Whiskey (cover currants with whiskey to plump)[p]1/4 cup honey
1 & 1/2 cup buttermilk, room temp in a small bowl
1/4 cup Jack Daniels Whiskey (from drunken currents)[p]1/2 Tablespoon buttermilk blended with 1/2 Tablespoon whiskey for glaze.[p]Fire up the egg and get it stable at 375 degrees dome, burning clean. Setup is indirect, platesetter legs up and grid on legs or small fire bricks on platesetter under dutch oven. Grease a 10" skillet or dutch oven to bake in.[p]Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, orange rind in a large bowl, add butter and cut in with fingers or pastry cutter. Drain whiskey from currents into a glass, add currents to flour mixture. [p]Measure out 1/4 cup of the currant soakin whiskey, and add to the buttermilk then add the honey and stir. Pour into flour mixture and stir a few times to moisten flour then turn dough out onto floured board and gently knead for 1 minute shaping into round loaf.[p]Place loaf into greased cast iron. Brush with milk/whiskey glaze and set in the egg, bake for about an hour or until a skewer comes out clean.





The remainder of the whiskey is for sippin.
Enjoy the bread with butter.[p]Clay[p][p]

Rollocks

Thanks for posting this. Iwas just getting ready to search for recipe for this. You saved me the task.

Rollocks

Thanks for posting this. Iwas just getting ready to search for recipe for this. You saved me the task.

Rollocks

Thanks for posting this. Iwas just getting ready to search for recipe for this. You saved me the task.

GrillMeister

ClayQ,[p]Looks fantastic. Now if you dropped the fruit, glaze & just drank the whiskey, would it be just like the Irish Soda Bread you get for breakfast over there?[p]I've been it Ireland a few times and really enjoy the dark soda bread with butter. It's fantastic and does a great job of keeping a person regular.

Clay Q

GrillMeister,
Dark breads, I'm thinking whole wheat for the soda bread? They do use a lot of cast iron for baking. Never been to the emerald isle.... I would like to vist some of the old country kitchens and learn a few things about traditional cooking.
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