Irish Soda bread

This is recipe was given to me long time back and it's very easy to make and everybody loves it!!




Irish Soda bread


Ingredients:
4 Cups all purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
3/4 teaspoons baking soda
3 teaspoons baking powder

• 1 tablespoon salt
• 6 tablespoons cold butter
• 1 tablespoon caraway seeds
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup raisins

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F.

Combine the flour, baking powder, soda, salt, sugar , caraway seeds, raisins and keep aside.

In a separate bowl beat the eggs and keep around table spoon aside.

Add the buttermilk to the eggs and mix. Cut the butter to a small pieces and add to the flour mix. with hand mix well until it forms coarse crumbs. At this point fold in the eggs  mix and start making the dough. At first it will be sticky, but as you need on a floored surface it will come together. 

Grease a 9'' pan. Shape bread into a ball  and cut  an 'X' on top of it. Brush the top with the eggs and bake for around 1h and 15 mins or until ready. Cool the bread before removing from pan.

Enjoy!