Caraway Whole Wheat Soda Bread Food

IRISH SODA BREAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven at 375˚F. Generously grease a 10" cast-iron skillet with 1/2 Tbsp butter.
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Cut butter into small pieces and use your fingers to work the butter into the flour until crumbs form stir in the raisins, breaking up any clumps of raisins. Make a well in the center.
• In a large measuring cup, whisk together the buttermilk and egg then add this mixture into the flour mixture. Use a wooden spoon and mix just until lightly moistened and dough barely starts to come together.
• Transfer to a floured surface and use floured hands to shape the dough just until it forms into a round loaf. It should be shaggy. If it's too sticky to handle, dust lightly with flour. Do not over-mix or bread will be tough.
• Transfer to the buttered pan, use a knife to score the top with a large and deep "X". Bake in the center of your preheated oven at 375 for 50-55min. When you tap on the bread, it should sound hollow inside. Transfer bread to a wire rack to cool. Enjoy within 2 days of making it and refrigerate leftovers up to a week.

CARAWAY SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, and caraway seeds.

CARAWAY BREAD

Steps:

• In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. In a large bowl, combine caraway seeds, salt, honey, yeast mixture, whole wheat flour and 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour; beat on medium speed until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a stiff dough (dough will be sticky)., Turn dough onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., Grease a 15x10x1-in. baking pan; sprinkle with cornmeal. Punch down dough. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into a round loaf; place on prepared pan. Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until almost doubled, about 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 425°., Using a sharp knife, cut a large "X" in top of loaf. Bake on a lower oven rack 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool.

IRISH SODA BREAD (BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Combine according to your manufacturer's directions.
• Success Hints: Golden raisins give this bread its light flavor and look.
• Dark raisins may be subsituted but will make a darker, slightly heavier loaf.
• The sugar in the raisins creates a darker crust; use your machine's"light crust setting" if it has one.
• Dried butter milk can generally be found in the baking goods section of your supermarket.
• If you can't find buttermilk, regular dried milk can be substituted.
• If using delayed time bake, place raisins atop dry ingredients away from liquid.
• This recipe can be made using the regular, rapid and delayed time bake cycles.

IRISH SODA BREAD WITH RAISINS AND CARAWAY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Generously butter heavy ovenproof 10 to 12-inch diameter skillet with 2- to 2 1/2-inch-high sides.
• Whisk first 5 ingredients in large bowl to blend.
• Add butter, using fingertips, rub in until coarse crumbs form.
• Stir in raisins and caraway seeds.
• Whisk buttermilk and egg in medium bowl to blend.
• Add to dough; using wooden spoon, stir just until incorporated.
• Dough will be very sticky.
• Transfer dough to prepared skillet; smooth top, mounding slightly in center.
• Using small sharp knife dipped into flour, cut 1-inch-deep X in top center of dough.
• Bake until bread is cooked through and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
• Cool bread in skillet 10 minutes.
• Turn out onto rack and cool completely.

WHOLE WHEAT BROWN SUGAR SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Prehart oven to 350 degrees; grease a baking sheet and set aside.
• Combine the flours, brown sugar,baking powder, salt, soda and caraway seeds in a food processor and pluse 2 times just to blend.
• Add butter and pluse until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
• Pour in buttermilk and pluse JUST to combine.
• Turn the dough onto a lightly floured board, knead 3 or 4 times and shape into a ball.
• Place dough on prepared baking sheet.
• Using a serrated knife, make an X on the top of the bread; sprinkle with caraway seeds, if desired.
• Bakefor 55 minutes to 1 hour until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and let cool slightly before slicing; serve with butter.

FOOLPROOF IRISH SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Mix milk and vinegar in a small bowl, and let stand until thickened, about 5 minutes.
• Whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl. Cut in unsalted butter with a pastry cutter or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add bran, caraway seeds, and raisins; stir to distribute.
• Pour milk mixture into flour mixture; stir until dough just holds together but is still sticky. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Pat and press the dough gently into a round, dome-shaped loaf, about 7 inches in diameter. Transfer to prepared sheet.
• Lightly dust top of loaf with flour. With a sharp knife, cut an X into the top, 3/4 inch deep. Bake, rotating halfway through, until loaf is golden brown and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour, 10 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Soda bread is best eaten the day it is made; serve with salted butter.

CARAWAY WHOLE WHEAT SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 375°F. Grease 9-inch cake pan. Combine first 7 ingredients in large bowl. Whisk to blend. Whisk buttermilk, oil and egg in small bowl to blend. Add to dry ingredients and stir until just mixed. Gently knead dough on floured surface until smooth. Gather into ball. Place in prepared pan, flattening to 1 inch high. Cut double cross in dough, cutting 1/3 inch deep. Bake until light brown, about 40 minutes. Cool on rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.