Hope you all had a wonderful “top of the morning” this St. Patrick’s Day as did I baking some Irish Soda bread for the third time this month! I talked to my Gram, of course, and she reminisced about making loaves of Soda Bread for the Elk’s each year since my Grandpa was a member. “I never got paid and I never got a thank you,” she said, yet she made them for decades! Gotta love her!
Although my Gram has one set way she makes her loaf, I experimented with three different types of flour this month to see what the outcome would be when it came to taste, texture and appearance. I used my Gram’s recipe for each one, changing the type of four only. I just want my gluten-free friends out there to know that they can still make these traditional recipes by substituting a few ingredients. I used Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Flour for this recipe below because I really like the brand. They use a blend of garbanzo bean flour, tapioca flour, white sorghum flour, potato starch and lava bean flour, and because the ratio of substitution is 1:1. Easy peesy!
Bob’s Red Mill.
Gluten-Free Irish Soda Bread- makes one loaf
Ingredients:
-2.5 cups gluten-free flour
-1/4 cup sugar
-3 tsp baking powder
-1/4 tsp cream of tatar
– 2 eggs
-3/4 tsp salt
-3 T caraway seeds
-1 cup raisins (soaked in water for 10 minutes and then drained)
-1 cup buttermilk
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350.
2. Beat all of the ingredients together. I used my Kitchen Aid!
3. Add the raisins last. For fun, I added 4 drops of green food color!
4. Grease a black-iron frying pan and pour batter in.
5. Bake for 1 hour or until brown on sides.
So, for your comparison… Here’s the Gluten-Free Soda Bread, followed by the one whole-wheat and lastly, white flour. Obviously, the white flour loaf looks amazing! But all three taste just as good! This was a fun experiment and I enjoyed sampling each of these breads!
Gluten-free flour.
Whole wheat flour.
White unbleached flour.
For now, enjoy a slice of soda bread with an Irish Car Bomb! Grab a glass and fill it halfway with Guinness, then fill a shot glass with 1/2 Irish cream and 1/2 Irish Whiskey. Drop the shot glass into the Stout beer and drink it down! Have a shamrocking day!
