Royal Irish soda bread from The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum

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  • ellipsis on February 13, 2023

    Made the rolls. Dough was too sticky to roll into a rope as instructed, so I just kind of dropped it onto the cookie sheet, but the rules came out fantastic. Really delicious, and more like scones than traditional soda bread.

  • anya_sf on March 18, 2021

    I used half white, half whole wheat pastry flour, which yielded a lovely, tender, lightly sweet loaf with crunchy exterior. It needed 10 extra minutes to bake. I'd made this in the past with the whiskey butter, which I remember as tasting wonderful, but this time we just enjoyed it with plain butter.

  • Zosia on January 23, 2021

    This is a tender, lightly sweetened loaf with a lovely crust, almost like a giant scone. Despite the 4 pages of instructions, the dough comes together in ~5 minutes and bakes in 30. I omitted the whiskey soaked raisins and didn’t make the whiskey butter, elements that would probably earn this an extra star, but it was delicious nonetheless and disappeared quickly. Next time, I’ll have to make 2!

  • ashallen on March 02, 2020

    From the author's website: In the IRISH SODA BREAD, page 150 The dough should be divided into 15 equal pieces of 50 grams each (when baked each one is about 44 grams). If one is not using a scale it would be best to divide the dough in half and then each piece in 8ths which would make slightly smaller rolls of about 46 grams each instead of 50 but easier to make all the same size when doing it by eye.

  • hibeez on February 28, 2020

    Perhaps the best Irish soda bread I've ever had. The whiskey butter ain't bad either.

  • lapetitebaker on January 09, 2017

    Recipe also includes instructions for shaping and baking as 15 rolls

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