Irish Soda Bread
spendwithpennies.com · 2026 · 12 slices
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
Less salt than 94% of recipes and less buttermilk than 79%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less salt than 94% of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about half as much.
- Less buttermilk than 79% of recipes: 72% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- No butter at all, where 61% of recipes use some (most of those 6.3 to 17% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (7)
- 2 cups whole wheat flour≈ 256 g
- 2 cups all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar≈ 25 g
- 1 teaspoon baking soda≈ 6 g
- ½ teaspoon salt≈ 3 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 1½ cups buttermilk (divided, or as needed)≈ 366 g
flour 506 gbatter 956 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.
- Buttermilk72% · 20th percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda1.2% · 36th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter0% · 19th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar4.9% · 59th percentile · median 1%
- Egg9.9% · 66th percentile · median 0%
- Salt0.6% · 3rd 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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