Sweet Irish Soda Bread
aspicyperspective.com · 2024 · 2 loaves
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
More sugar than 97% of recipes and more butter than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 97% of recipes: 24% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about 24 times as much.
- More butter than 89% of recipes: 18% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.6%, about 3.5 times as much.
- Less baking soda than 85% of recipes: 1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%.
- More buttermilk than 78% of recipes: 98% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (11)
- 5 cups all-purpose flour (sifted)≈ 625 g
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar≈ 150 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt≈ 9 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter≈ 114 g
- 2 1/2 cups buttermilk≈ 610 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 2 1/2 cups raisins, (mixed light and dark)≈ 375 g
- 3 tablespoons caraway seeds≈ 44 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- turbinado sugar (for sprinkling)n/a
flour 625 gbatter 1992 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.
- Buttermilk98% · 83rd percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda1% · 13th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter18% · 90th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar24% · 99th percentile · median 1%
- Egg8% · 57th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.4% · 70th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 60 to 70 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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