My Favorite Soda Bread

This is incredibly easy and makes you feel a little like a professional. It's a dense bread that goes well with a lot of things. I found this one while searching online for a decent recipe and ran across this one, it had really good reviews so I thought I would share. Types of meals to go with soda bread are soups, cold cut sandwiches, steak...or just a delicious snack.

Soda Bread from Kim's Kitchen

I did make a couple changes so here is my version:

Cheddar Onion Soda Bread
4 c Bread Flour
1 1/2 tsp Salt
1 Tbs Baking Powder
1 Tbs Butter, Softened
1 1/4 c Buttermilk (if you don't have buttermilk, use regular milk with 1 Tbs of vinegar)
2 Tbs Powdered Sugar
1 bunch of Green Onions, chopped
3/4 c Shredded Cheddar

Preheat oven to 425°F 

In large bowl whisk bread flour, salt, and baking powder until thoroughly combined. Beat in butter, buttermilk and powdered sugar to make a dough.

Gently knead in onion and cheddar. Divide dough in half and shape into balls. 

Place on baking sheet, gently flatten to about 2 inches thick and dust with flour. Cut an X on top.

Bake 30 Minutes

You can use regular flour but it won't turn out as well. Bread flour has a rising agent in it. Since Soda Bread does not have any yeast in it, it depends on the Bread Flour and Baking Soda to make a nice loaf.

The difference between Bread Flour and All-Purpose Flour:
A bit of protein. All-purpose flour has 8-11% protein; bread flour has 12-14%. The extra protein in bread flour results in a slightly higher rise, but you'll still get a good rise with all-purpose.