By together with an egg, sugar, caraway seeds, and butter to an ordinary Irish soda bread recipe, you create a loaf that’s moist with additional style, wonderful for a Sunday breakfast or brunch. Wrapped successfully with plastic wrap, it might be saved at room temperature until the ultimate crumb is eaten. Like all Irish soda breads, this freezes successfully.
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Components
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4 cups all-purpose flour
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¼ cup sugar
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1 teaspoon salt
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2 teaspoons baking powder
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2 tablespoons caraway seeds
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4 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilly
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2 cups golden or darkish raisins
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1 ½ scant cups buttermilk
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1 huge egg
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1 teaspoon baking soda
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1 huge egg yolk
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1 tablespoon heavy cream
Directions
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Heat oven to 350 ranges. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; put apart. In a giant bowl, whisk collectively flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and caraway seeds until successfully combined.
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Using a pastry cutter or two knives in scissor pattern, scale back in butter until the mix appears to be like like coarse meal. Stir in raisins until evenly distributed.
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In a small bowl, whisk collectively buttermilk, egg, and baking soda until successfully combined. Pour buttermilk mixture into the flour-and-butter mixture unexpectedly, and stir with a fork until all the liquid is absorbed and the mix begins to hold collectively. It should resemble a tricky biscuit dough. Using your fingers, press the dough proper right into a spherical, dome-shaped loaf about 8 inches in diameter. Carry the loaf from the bowl, and swap it to the prepared baking sheet.
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In a small bowl, mix the egg yolk and cream collectively. With a pastry brush, brush the egg wash over the loaf. With a sharp knife or razor, incise a cross, about 1/2 inch deep, into the very best of the loaf. Change to the oven. Bake, rotating halfway by the use of, until it is deep golden brown and a picket skewer comes out clear when inserted into the center, about 70 minutes. Take away from oven, and swap bread from the baking sheet to a wire rack to relax.
Mark Berenson
Initially appeared: Martha Stewart Dwelling, March 2000