Easy St Patrick's Day Recipe to make traditional Irish Soda Bread perfect for cooking with kids as young as toddlers. Includes instructions on making your own buttermilk.
Course bread, Lunch
Cuisine Irish
Keyword Cooking with Kids, Preschool Recipes, St Patrick's Day, Toddler Recipes
Mix together until combined to create a buttermilk substitute.
Making Irish Soda Bread
Pre-Heat oven on to 200C.
Line a baking tray with some greaseproof paper.
Add all the dry ingredients to a bowl and mix.
Add the milk/lemon juice mix and stir to form a dough. If the dough is too sticky then add a bit more flour.
If the dough is too sticky then add a bit more flour.
Shape into a round and score with a cross on the top.
Place on the baking tray in the centre of the oven for 30 minutes.
Let the Bread cool and then serve with some butter and jam.
Notes
The cross on the top of the bread is to help the air escape as it cooks, or as the folklore says it's so that the fairies protect the bread as it bakes. I think I like the second reason better.