Super Simple Irish Soda Bread
Alexandra Stafford · alexandracooks.com · 2016 · 1 loaf
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
More salt than 96% of recipes and less baking soda than 85%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More salt than 96% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about twice as much.
- Less baking soda than 85% of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%.
Ingredients (10)
- 4 cups (510 g) all-purpose flour, see notes below for making it whole grain510 g
- 2 teaspoons (12 g) Diamond Crystal kosher salt, see notes above12 g
- 1 tablespoon (13 g) sugar13 g
- 1 teaspoon (5 g) baking soda5 g
- 1 cup dried currants, optional≈ 237 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 1¾ cups (410 g) buttermilk, see notes above410 g
- 2 tablespoons melted butter≈ 28 g
- room temperature buttern/a
- flourn/a
flour 510 gbatter 1265 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 123 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Buttermilk80% · 39th percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda1% · 13th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter5.6% · 50th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar2.5% · 54th percentile · median 1%
- Egg9.8% · 64th percentile · median 0%
- Salt2.4% · 98th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 35 to 40 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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