Sweet Irish Soda Bread
Food Network Kitchen · foodnetwork.com · 2016 · 1 loaf
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
More butter than 99% of recipes and more baking soda than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More butter than 99% of recipes: 27% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.6%, about 5 times as much.
- More baking soda than 91% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about twice as much.
- More egg than 95% of recipes: 20% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More buttermilk than 78% of recipes: 98% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
Ingredients (13)
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 9 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1/2 teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 tablespoon sugar≈ 13 g
- 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter≈ 28 g
- 2 tablespoons cold vegetable shortening≈ 26 g
- 1 egg, beaten≈ 50 g
- 1 cup buttermilk≈ 244 g
- 1 cup currants≈ 237 g
- 2 tablespoons toasted caraway seeds≈ 30 g
- 1 tablespoon melted butter≈ 14 g
- 1 tablespoon sanding sugar≈ 13 g
flour 250 gbatter 922 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 soda2.4% · 94th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter27% · 100th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar10% · 80th percentile · median 1%
- Egg20% · 97th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.2% · 46th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 40 to 45 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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