Irish Soda Bread This is a giant biscuit masquerading as bread. Really. It's apparently a popular bread in Ireland, and has many different variations, but this one is a plain white flour variety. It's sometimes made with part or all wheat flour. It comes out kind of cakey and heavier than yeast bread, but it's amazingly filling. A hunk of this for breakfast and I'm good to go til lunch. Ingredients 4 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 cups buttermilk or soured milk Just Dough It Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Sieve flour, salt, and baking soda together into a large bowl. Add enough buttermilk to make a soft dough. When it's stirred together and mostly cohesive, pick it up with your hands and knead it gently until smooth. Work it only enough to blend it, because over kneading will make it tough. Form a round loaf about 3" thick. Put it on a floured baking sheet and cut a cross in the top with a sharp knife. Dust the top with flour if you want. Bake for 30-45 minutes. Notes and Hints and Stuff Is it done yet? When it's done, it sounds hollow if you knock on the bottom of it. I was told to wrap it up immediately in a tea towel to keep the crust form hardening too much. It's still pretty hard. And if you don't eat it in a day or two, the whole thing goes hard.