Irish Soda Bread: Cake (part 1)

Part 1 of a two-part tutorial on making the "cake" style of soda bread. See the article accompanying the tutorial at:
http://www.europeancuisines.com/Peters-Mums-Soda-Bread-Recipe

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• Ireland
• soda bread
• bread
• tutorial

[puppyomalley]

Can i use bread flour to make Irish Soda Bread??? or is it better to use all purpose flour??

[dduane]

@puppyomalley Hi there! *Don't* use bread flour: it would be wasted on this, as bread flour is used for its high gluten content, and the *last* thing you want in soda bread is highly developed gluten. All-purpose flour works fine: cake flour may work even better, depending on the composition of your local cake flour.

[cpglerum]

what kind of oven is that? It looks like a great thing to have.

[dduane]

It's a Whirlpool "Talent Family" MT 46. It really is a great oven: combined microwave, fan oven and (electric) grill. It's about three years old, so there might have been a change in model number or features by now. But it's worth looking for.

[puppyomalley]

@dduane Okay then no bread flour...gottcha :) thanks. I love soda bread coz it's easy and fast to make when we happen to be out of bread heeheehee...my family and i love bread....

[DianeBvideos]

Great video! Thanks so much for making it and glad to see it's still up (tho

owlsprings is gone?).

Your style is very clear and concise (words & video). Helped me understand things I'd been floundering w/ trying to find info re making soda bread.

Really enjoyed them, & also your text from the European Cuisine site, "Peters-Mums-Soda-Bread-Recipe­"

(I'm wanting to make "brown" soda bread though & may also have to use milk+vinegar or beer since want to have ingred's on hand & don't drink b'milk)

[DizturbedChild]

Thankyou so much!

[yobynnart]

I love your recipe... i have tried just soy milk and it works just fine too... YOU ARE AWSOME thanks

[Lindelamare]

I used bread flour instead of plain. Big mistake.

Good video though. Cheers.

[ThereseDeFarge]

This is great! Many thanks to you for this tutorial. I watched all 4 sections and expect to have vastly improved results with my soda bread now that I have learned that I should not have been kneading the dough—however gently—and that those cuts are not just for decorative purposes only (mine were way to shallow so no wonder I could never get the "flowering" effect!). BTW, is adding caraway seeds and golden raisins an American bastardization of the Irish tradition?