Sourdough Irish Soda Bread
littlespoonfarm.com · 2025 · 8 large wedges
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
Less buttermilk than 97% of recipes and more sugar than 87%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less buttermilk than 97% of recipes: 47% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- More sugar than 87% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about 13 times as much.
- More butter than 82% of recipes: 17% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.6%, about 3 times as much.
- More salt than 83% of recipes: 1.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%.
Ingredients (9)
- 4 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour≈ 516 g
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda≈ 9 g
- 1 ½ teaspoon salt≈ 9 g
- 6 tablespoons butter (cold, chopped into small cubes)≈ 85 g
- 1 cup sourdough discard≈ 240 g
- 1 whole egg≈ 50 g
- 1/3 cup sugar≈ 67 g
- 1 cup buttermilk (see notes for subbing regular milk)≈ 244 g
- 1 cup raisins (add ⅓-½ cup more if you want a lot of raisins)≈ 150 g
flour 516 gbatter 1370 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.
- Buttermilk47% · 2nd percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda1.7% · 76th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter17% · 83rd percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar13% · 88th percentile · median 1%
- Egg9.7% · 63rd percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.7% · 84th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 40 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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