Submitted by: Susan Buetow | Scraps of Life
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“Fresh out of the oven, this bread is great sliced and served with butter.”
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 50-60 minutes
Servings: 10
Yield: 1 loaf
Ingredients
1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
4 cups of flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup of butter, room temperature
Directions
- Preheat oven 425° F (218° C).
- Whisk together all dry ingredients.
- Add in wet ingredients.
- Mix quickly.
- Turn out onto a floured surface, cover with 1/4 cup of flour and kneed for 30 seconds.
- Shape into a round or oval loaf.
- Flour a round or oval pan.
- Use a sharp knife and score/carve a large X on top of the loaf.
- Bake 50-60 minutes. The top will be dark golden to dark brown.
- Enjoy.
Kitchen Notes
If you have any left the next day, it makes great toast. This dough resembles biscuit dough–to make drop biscuits, drop a heaping tablespoon onto a baking sheet.
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I use to make this when the kids were still at home. So many ways of making it.
I agree April! I hope you bake some different variations and share them with the Kitchen!
This bread looks gorgeous & I’m sure it’s absolutely delicious.
I love adding chopped crisp bacon in my Irish Soda Breads.
Bacon is good on everything Rachael! haha YUM!!
Beautiful and delicious bread, very easy recipe.
This looks delicous!! I like to add either dried cranberries or golden rasins and a pinch of caraway seed , when I make irish soda bread. I can’t wait to make htis recipe-
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I’ve been wanting to try Irish soda bread. Pinned this on Pinterest (if you mind, please let me know and I’ll unpin it).
Thank you Gale! We appreciate it.
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