.BraveTart's Irish soda bread is both gloriously fluffy and satisfyingly crusty. No kneading or proofing required!
Scone, schmone. Soda bread started out as crusty Irish hearth bread. [Photographs and video: Vicky Wasik]Given our current obsession with quick and easy no-knead recipes, I'm always bummed to see Irish soda bread relegated to the realm of St. Patrick's Day novelties. Not only because it's far more authentic than green beer or some random cake soaked in Baileys, but because old-school recipes turn out a legitimately fantastic loaf in no time at all.
Mercifully, folks at home paired baking soda with a far tastier and less alarming alternative: buttermilk. That same combo gave rise toin America, but, with"patent bread" as their model, British bakers favored plain white flour . Soda bread's association with Ireland arose after the devastation of the country's potato crop in the 1840s, which forced a people historically ambivalent toward bread to start baking en masse.
It's an earnest re-creation of a bread that earned its place at a time when recipes never got any more specific than a"big spoonful" of soda and"as much buttermilk" as needed to form a dough, but I'm not convinced that soda bread was ever meant to be a giant scone. Not simply because that's not my particular cup of tea, but because it doesn't seem to jibe with the facts.in 1836, says the dough was"as soft as could possibly be handled...
, but, as a rule of thumb, aerated breads were too soft to knead. Given the context of soda bread's popularity in Ireland, I'm inclined to take that language at face value. In the midst of famine, soda bread stretched something expensive with something cheap , and replaced something slow with something wonderfully fast .
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