Irish Soda Bread
bakingamoment.com · 2026 · 16
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
Less baking soda than 94% of recipes and less salt than 94%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less baking soda than 94% of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about half as much.
- Less salt than 94% of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about half as much.
- Less buttermilk than 77% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- No butter at all, where 61% of recipes use some (most of those 6.3 to 17% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (4)
- 4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 500 g
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt≈ 3 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk* ((you may need as much as 2 cups))≈ 366 g
flour 500 gbatter 872 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.
- Buttermilk73% · 22nd percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda0.6% · 3rd percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter0% · 19th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar0% · 23rd percentile · median 1%
- Egg0% · 28th percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.6% · 3rd percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 450°F / 230°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 15 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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