Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day. That means it’s time to wear obnoxious amounts of green, imbibe a bit more than normal, and eat Irish Soda Bread.

This is my third post about this exact same soda bread recipe. Growing up, the only thing St. Patty’s day meant was to wear green so we wouldn’t get pinched. Mr. Weekly Bite grew up with a full Irish traditions.

This is his mom’s Irish Soda Bread recipe. We make it every year and love it. This was also M’s first time enjoying a slice fresh out of the oven.

When I told her it was her Granny’s recipe she smiled from ear to ear

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup raisins

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar together… set aside.

In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter. (Make sure melted butter has cooled a little… if its too hot, you’ll scramble the eggs.)

Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients. Stir together with a wooden spoon. Fold in the raisins.

You can use either a loaf pan of a round 9 inch cake pan. Spray with non-stick cooking spray. Spread dough evenly into pan.

Bake for about 40-50 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.

Happy St. Patty’s Day!!

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Despite being out of the house most of the day, I managed to get myself in the kitchen and bake some bread.

Every year, around St. Patty’s Day, I make Mr. Weekly Bite Irish Soda bread. He grew up eating it and started asking me to make it for him several years ago. Its such an easy bread to make, and delicious too! What I like about it is it’s not too sweet. It almost has the sweetness of a scone, maybe even less than that.

Here’s how make this super easy bread:

1) Combine all your dry ingredients in a bowl, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, & salt.

2) In a separate bowl, whisk together all your wet ingredients: buttermilk, melted butter, & eggs.

3) Add your wet ingredients to your dry ingredients and mix together with a wooden spoon.

4) Finally fold your raisins in.

5) Spray a 9 inch round pan with  nonstick cooking spray and spread the batter evenly. Bake until nice & golden brown.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup raisins

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar together… set aside.

In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter. (Make sure melted butter has cooled a little… if its too hot, you’ll scramble the eggs.)

Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients. Stir together with a wooden spoon. Fold in the raisins.

You can use either a loaf pan of a round 9 inch cake pan. Spray with non-stick cooking spray. Spread dough evenly into pan.

Bake for about 40-50 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.

My favorite way to eat this is fresh out of the oven with a pat of butter! Delicious

I was talking to my brother on the phone the other night.

I told him I was making Irish Soda Bread for the first time.

The first thing out of his mouth was “Does this mean Tim’s gonna make you tamales for Cinco de Mayo?” LOL!!

My brother lives in Minneapolis, I live in DC, but both of us were born and raised in Texas.

Born in a Mexican American family… neither of us had heard of Irish Soda Bread until we got older.

I had never heard of it until I met my husband.

I always thought St. Patty’s day was just a day you wore something green so nobody would pinch you…

Tim and I started dating in January of 1999 (I know… I’m old). I was a senior in college then.

I remember that year St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Tuesday.

He ask me if I wanted to go the local pub and grab a beer with him.

All I was thinking to myself was “Why do we have to grab a beer just because it’s St. Patrick’s Day?”

I was so naive! I knew nothing!!

Tim is from New York… I’m from Texas… he’s Irish… I’m Mexican…

I felt like we grew up in different worlds.

For his family… St. Patty’s Day is one of the biggest holidays of the year!

For my family… we wore green so we wouldn’t get pinched at school

This recipe came from my Irish mother-in-law.

She grew up on this bread… her mom grew up on this bread… and Tim grew up on this bread.

So when Tim asked me to make him some Irish Soda Bread… I knew exactly who to go to for the recipe!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup raisins
• 3 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 3 teaspoons melted butter

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Soak raisins in about 1 cup of water for 10 minutes to moisten.

Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar together… set aside.

In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter. (Make sure melted butter has cooled a little… if its too hot, you’ll scramble the eggs.)

Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients. Stir together with a wooden spoon. Drain the raisins and gently fold into dough.

You can use either a loaf pan of a round 9 inch cake pan. Spray with non-stick cooking spray. Spread dough evenly into pan.

Bake for about 1 hour 10 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.

Enjoy!