Soft, tender, and made with simple ingredients! This traditional no-yeast bread with buttermilk is easy to make!

Irish Soda Bread Recipe with Buttermilk

We recently redesigned my son’s room – it got a complete makeover, including some new furniture! Some of it we have to assemble. And by we, I mean my husband & son.

I was in the kitchen while they were on the living room flooring putting it together. It occurred to me that if our son was 2 years old, I’d be over there taking a bazillion pictures of them! But he’s a teenager now and it’s just part of life that they were doing this.

Times sure have changed! The older he gets, the less pictures I take. I need to change that and start taking more pictures!

Speaking of new, this Irish Soda Bread Recipe is new to me! My Grandma made this for you. I was pleasantly surprised – this bread is not only easy to make, but it’s delicious, too!

If you love a good loaf of homemade bread, then I think you’ll love Apple Date Bread, Homemade Artisan Bread, Homemade Garlic Bread, or Homemade Oatmeal Bread, too!

What You’ll Need:

• 1 3/4 cups Buttermilk
• 1 Egg
• 4 1/4 cups Flour
• 3 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Salt
• 5 tbsp Butter, Cold & Cubed

How to Make the Best Irish Soda Bread

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Set aside 10-12 inch cast iron skillet.
• Whisk together 1 3/4 cups buttermilk and 1 egg. Set aside.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together 4 1/4 cups flour, 3 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp baking soda, and 1 tsp salt.
• Cut in 5 tbsp cold & cubed butter using a fork until you have pea-size crumbs. Pour in the buttermilk/egg mixture.
• Gently fold the dough together until dough is too stiff to stir. Pour crumbly dough onto lightly floured countertop. Work the dough into a ball as best you can, then knead until the flour is moistened. If the dough is too sticky, add a little more flour.
• Transfer the dough to the skillet. Using a very sharp knife, score the dough with a ‘X’ shape about 1/2 inch deep.
• Bake until the bread is golden brown and center appears cooked through, about 45-55 minutes. Loosely tent aluminum foil over the bread if it’s starting to brown too quickly.
• Remove from the oven and allow bread to cool for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack.

More Bread:

• No Yeast Bread
• Apple Date Bread
• Best Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
• Cream Cheese Cranberry Bread
• Pumpkin Bread
• Homemade Oatmeal Bread
• Homemade Artisan Bread
• Easy Focaccia Bread
• Homemade Garlic Bread
• Chocolate Cake Mix Zucchini Bread
• Rhubarb Bread