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Irish Bread from Athlone, County Roscommon

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The family legend goes that my grandmother Katie brought this recipe over from Ireland in 1923. It’s not a typical dry Irish bread; it’s extremely moist and tastes great warm with a bit of butter and a cup of tea. Freezes well, too.

Ingredients

  • 2-½ cups Flour
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • ½ cups White Sugar
  • 2 cups Raisins, Plumped (See Below)
  • 1-¾ cup Buttermilk
  • 1 stick Butter, Melted
  • 1 whole Large Egg, Beaten

Preparation

Note: to plump raisins, put them in a bowl and pour just enough boiling water to cover them. Let them sit for a minute, drain off water, then let them cool a bit before you add them to the batter.

This recipe makes 2 loaves OR 5 mini loaves OR 24 muffins.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Generously grease and flour loaf or muffin pans.

Add flour, baking powder, soda and salt and whisk with a fork. Add the sugar and raisins.

Add the buttermilk, butter and beaten egg. Mix everything well and fill your prepared pans about three quarters full.

Bake until a knife inserted comes out clean.

For regular loaf pans, bake for 45-60 minutes.
For mini loaf pans, 45-50 minutes.
For muffin pans, 25-35 minutes.

Let cool in their pans before popping them out to cool completely on a wire rack.

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aginto on 3.17.2010

I made these as part of my St. Paddy’s Day dinner today. It came out tasty and moist. I added some green food colour for fun…and soaked the raisins in rum for extra flavour! ;o) Thank you for sharing this gem!

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tina59 on 8.7.2009

I love that there is a family legend with this bread and it looks very easy. I’ll make it on the halfway to St. Patricks Day in September. Gotta celebrate St.Pat’s day twice!

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kender3 on 3.26.2013

Not too sweet and very tasty. A good snack that isn’t a thinly-disguised dessert.

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mandyhello on 3.15.2012

This is a complete winner! Seriously couldn’t be easier, and it was amazingly moist and flavorful. I’m going to soak the raisins in whiskey this time (because I’m bad like that haha). By the way, this is a batter not to be missed.. you’re going to want to lick that spoon!

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jaxanahalf on 3.29.2011

came out perfectly! I love this recipe and will be making it in place of my current Irish Bread from now on! Thanks for posting it :)

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