Cheesy Irish Soda Bread
completelydelicious.com · 2025 · 1 loaf
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
Less buttermilk than 77% of recipes and no sugar, unlike 54%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less buttermilk than 77% of recipes: 73% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- No sugar at all, where 54% of recipes use some (most of those 5 to 11% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (8)
- 4 cups all-purpose flour≈ 500 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt≈ 6 g
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper≈ 2.5 g
- ¼ cup unsalted butter (, cold and cubed)≈ 57 g
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese ((113 grams))113 g
- 1 ½ cup buttermilk (, cold and well-shaken)≈ 366 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
flour 500 gbatter 1100 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 soda1.2% · 36th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter11% · 69th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar0% · 23rd percentile · median 1%
- Egg10% · 72nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.2% · 46th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 40 to 45 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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