Simple Irish Soda Bread Recipe
Faith Gorsky · anediblemosaic.com · 2025 · 10 servings
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
More baking soda than 91% of recipes and more salt than 84%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More baking soda than 91% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about twice as much.
- More salt than 84% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%.
- More buttermilk than 75% of recipes: 96% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (9)
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted and cooled slightly (plus more to grease the pan))≈ 57 g
- 2 tablespoons honey≈ 42 g
- 3 cups whole wheat flour≈ 384 g
- 1 cup all-purpose flour≈ 125 g
- 1/4 cup wheat bran (or oat bran)≈ 20 g
- 2 teaspoons baking soda≈ 12 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt≈ 9 g
- 1 large egg (lightly beaten)≈ 50 g
- 2 cups buttermilk≈ 488 g
flour 509 gbatter 1187 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.
- Buttermilk96% · 76th percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda2.4% · 94th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter11% · 65th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar8.3% · 74th percentile · median 1%
- Egg9.8% · 64th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.8% · 86th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 40 to 50 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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