*** This recipe is online at http://orthodoxkitchen.com/recipes/irish-soda-bread/ ***

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   Irish Soda Bread
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Makes 1 loaf 

Ingredients
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2 cups flour
2 tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. chilled butter
3/4 - 1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup currants


Instructions
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This recipe comes to us from St. Michael's Orthodox School in Santa Rosa California,
where the students make soda bread and fresh butter each year on St. Brigid's feast day. 


Sift the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder and soda, salt) together into a
bowl.

Cut butter into flour mixture until butter is split pea size

Add buttermilk and mix thoroughly into a soft, biscuit-like doug

Stir in 1?2 cup currants.

Knead on lightly floured board for about 3 minutes or until smooth

Form into a flat round. Place on greased cookie sheet. Cut a cross 1?2 inch deep
in the center. Brush with milk.

Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until knife or cake tester comes out clean. Cool on
wire rack.