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Irish Soda Bread

Irish Soda Bread

Graham flour is coarser than regular whole-wheat flour, which also works. If you use the latter, substitute one-half cup wheat bran for one-half cup all-purpose flour.

Martha Stewart Living, March 2004 http://www.marthastewart.com/338479/irish-soda-bread
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  • Yield Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients

    • 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
    • 1 cup whole-wheat graham flour
    • 2 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
    • 1 2/3 cups buttermilk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside. Whisk together the flours, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a large bowl. With a pastry blender or your fingertips, blend in butter until it resembles small peas. Add buttermilk all at once; stir with a fork until mixture holds together.
  2. In the bowl, pat the dough into a domeshaped loaf about 7 inches in diameter. Lift out dough; transfer to lined sheet.
  3. Lightly dust top of loaf with flour. Cut a 3/4-inch-deep cross in top, reaching almost all the way to edges. Bake, rotating sheet halfway through, until deep golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.

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