Homemade Sourdough Irish Soda Bread
Emilie Raffa · theclevercarrot.com · 2021 · 1 Loaf
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
Less buttermilk than 99% of recipes and more sugar than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less buttermilk than 99% of recipes: 45% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%, about half as much.
- More sugar than 88% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%, about 13.5 times as much.
- More egg than 87% of recipes: 13% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0%.
- More salt than 86% of recipes: 1.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%.
Ingredients (9)
- 375 g (3 cups) all purpose flour (I use KAF)375 g
- 50 g (4 tbsp) granulated sugar50 g
- 5 g (1 tsp) baking soda5 g
- 7 g (1 1/2 tsp) fine sea salt7 g
- 60 g (4 tbsp) unsalted butter, cold, cut into small cubes60 g
- 1 large egg≈ 50 g
- 170 g (appx. 3/4 cup) buttermilk170 g
- 200 g (appx. 1 cup) sourdough starter discard or active sourdough starter200 g
- 150 g (1 cup) raisins150 g
flour 375 gbatter 1067 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.
- Buttermilk45% · 0th percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda1.3% · 53rd percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter16% · 83rd percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar13% · 89th percentile · median 1%
- Egg13% · 89th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.9% · 88th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 375°F / 190°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 45 to 55 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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