[[!meta title="Best Ever Irish Soda Bread"]]

Adapted from allrecipes.com

4375 cal/recipe

## Ingredients

+ 4 c all-purpose flour
+ 3/4 c granulated sugar
+ 1 tsp salt
+ 1 tsp baking powder
+ 1 tsp baking soda
+ 1/2 c butter, at room temperature
+ 1 1/2 c golden raisins
+ 1 1/2 c buttermilk, at room temperature
+ 3 eggs, at room temperature

## Directions

+ Preheat oven to 350 F.
+ Grease a 9-inch cake pan.
+ Stir together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl.
+ Cut the butter into the flour mixture until well-combined.
+ Sir raisins into flour mixture.
+ In another bowl, whisk buttermilk and eggs.
+ Lightly beat together buttermilk mixture and flour mixture.
+ Place the dough in the greased cake pan.
+ Bake until the bread has risen and the top is golden-brown (45-60 min, until a kife inserted comes out clean).
+ Cool the bread in the pan on a wire rack and then serve.

[[!tag buttermilk "golden raisins"]]