Rye Soda Bread

Name: Rye Soda Bread
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 180 min
Ingredients: 2.5 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface, hands, and skewer; 1.5 cups rye flour; 1.5 teaspoons coarse salt; 1.25 teaspoons baking soda; 2 cups well-shaken low-fat buttermilk

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Martha Stewart Test Kitchen

Updated on April 23, 2020

Prep Time:

15 mins

Total Time:

3 hrs

Yield:

1 loaf

Serve this updated rye soda bread with orange marmalade, Irish butter, smoked trout, Cashel Blue cheese, and our simple Watercress Salad for an impressive brunch spread.

Ingredients

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface, hands, and skewer
1 ½ cups rye flour
1 ½ teaspoons coarse salt
1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
2 cups well-shaken low-fat buttermilk

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Whisk together flours, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl. Gather mixture into a mound; create a deep well in the center. Pour buttermilk into well. Gradually stir flour mixture into buttermilk with a wooden spoon, starting in center and working outward, until a dough forms.
Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface and, with lightly floured hands, form a cohesive ball. (Do not overwork dough.) Pat ball into a 7-inch-wide domed round and transfer to a baking sheet. Across top of round, cut a 1-inch-deep X with a floured knife. Poke holes at 1-inch intervals to bottom of dough (about 28 holes total) with a floured wooden skewer.
Bake bread 30 minutes. Turn bread upside down; continue baking until cooked through and loaf sounds hollow when tapped on bottom, about 10 minutes more. Transfer loaf to a wire rack and let cool completely, about 2 hours, before slicing and serving. Bread can be made 2 days ahead and stored, whole, at room temperature, in a paper bag or wrapped in parchment.