Grandma's Irish Soda Bread
Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2019 · 1 loaf
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
Less baking soda than 78% of recipes and more butter than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less baking soda than 78% of recipes: 1.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%.
- More butter than 77% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 5.6%, about 2.5 times as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 and 3/4 cups (420ml) buttermilk*≈ 427 g
- 1 large egg (optional, see note)≈ 50 g
- 4 and 1/4 cups (531g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled), plus more for your hands and counter531 g
- 3 Tablespoons (38g) granulated sugar38 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- 1 teaspoon salt≈ 6 g
- 5 Tablespoons (71g) unsalted butter, cold and cubed*71 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- optional: 1 cup (150g) raisins150 g
flour 531 gbatter 1129 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.
- Buttermilk80% · 39th percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda1.1% · 18th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter13% · 78th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar7.2% · 69th percentile · median 1%
- Egg9.4% · 61st percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.1% · 28th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 45 to 55 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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