Irish Soda Bread
daringgourmet.com · 2026 · 12
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
Less buttermilk than 90% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less buttermilk than 90% of recipes: 64% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- Baking soda in the middle half of recipes: 1.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%.
Ingredients (8)
- 4 cups pastry flour ((or 3 cups all-purpose flour plus 1 cup cake flour))≈ 570 g
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar (, optional; not traditional but recommended)≈ 25 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda≈ 9 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt≈ 6 g
- 2 tablespoons softened butter (, not traditional but recommended (if omitting add 2 tablespoons buttermilk))≈ 28 g
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk ((for best texture and flavor strongly recommend using real buttermilk, not milk + vinegar/lemon juice))≈ 366 g
- 1 cup raisins or dried currants (, optional (can substitute dried cranberries))≈ 150 g
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts (, optional (not traditional))≈ 30 g
flour 570 gbatter 1184 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.
- Buttermilk64% · 9th percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda1.6% · 70th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter5% · 45th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar4.4% · 57th percentile · median 1%
- Egg0% · 28th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.1% · 28th 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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