Irish Soda Bread
dinneratthezoo.com · 2026 · 12
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
More sugar than 76% of recipes.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 76% of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about 10 times as much.
- Egg in the middle half of recipes: 10% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
Ingredients (8)
- 4 cups all purpose flour (plus more for dusting the work surface)≈ 500 g
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar≈ 50 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 1 1/4 cups raisins≈ 188 g
- 1/4 cup butter (cold, cut into small pieces)≈ 57 g
- 1 3/4 cups buttermilk≈ 427 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
flour 500 gbatter 1283 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.
- Buttermilk85% · 57th percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda1.2% · 36th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter11% · 69th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar10% · 80th percentile · median 1%
- Egg10% · 72nd percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.2% · 46th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 45 to 50 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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