Nana Reinhart's Irish Soda Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour (we used 2c wheat & 2c )
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup seedless raisin
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk

Recipe

• 1 mix the first 5 ingredients. add raisins. add buttermilk.
• 2 mix until dough forms. form into a ball and plop it onto a lightly floured baking pan or stone. cut top of dough crisscross with knife. brush with buttermilk.
• 3 bake at 375 for one hour. if bread gets too brown, cover with foil.
• 4 because all ovens are different, please watch. when toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean, it's done.
• 5 i found that cutting the bread when warm is easier than when cooled completely.