Recipe - Marilyn Oreillys Irish Soda Bread

3 cup Allpurpose flour
One half cup Sugar
1 tablespoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
4 tablespoon Unsalted butter
2 tablespoon Caraway seeds; optional
1 cup Raisins
1 cup Buttermilk
1 Egg

Set a rack in the middle level of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees.

In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, soda and salt
and stir well to mix.

Add the butter and rub in until the butter disappears into the dry
ingredients.

Stir in the caraway seeds if used and the raisins.

In a small bowl, whisk the buttermilk and egg together and mix into the
dough mixture with a rubber spatula.

Turn the dough out on a floured work surface and fold it over on itself
several times, shaping it into a round loaf. Transfer the loaf to one
cookie sheet or jelly roll pan covered with parchment or foil and cut a
cross in the top. Bake for about 30 to 40 minutes, until well colored and a
toothpick plunged into the center emerges clean.

Cool the soda bread on a rack and serve with plenty of sweet butter and
bitter orange marmalade.

Yield: One large loaf

Notes: Recipe courtesy of Marilyn O'Reilly, "Cooking Live" 's Executive
Producer

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL9085

Posted to MCRecipe Digest by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
jfreeman@comteck.com on Apr 4, 1998