Title: Helen Doyle's Irish Soda Bread
Categories: Breads
Yield: 12 Servings

3 c All-purpose flour
1 c Raisins
1/4 c Sugar
1 tb Caraway seeds
2 ts Baking powder
1 ts Salt
1/2 ts Baking soda
1 1/2 c Nonfat buttermilk
Vegetable cooking spray

Combine first 7 ingredients in a large bowl; stir well. Add buttermilk;
stir well until a dough forms.

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead lightly 3 to 4
times. Pat dough into an 8-inch round cakepan coated with cooking spray.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in
center comes out clean and bread is golden. Let cool in pan 5 minutes;
loosen edges of bread with a knife. Remove from pan; let cool on a wire
rack. Yield: 12 servings.

Per serving: 179 Calories; 0g Fat (2% calories from fat); 5g Protein; 40g
Carbohydrate; 1mg Cholesterol; 309mg Sodium

Serving Ideas : Cut into wdeges.

NOTES : My wife and I both work full-time, so I do most of the cooking, and
my mom's soda bread can always be found at our house. It's great for
breakfast or for a snack. -- Kevin Doyle, Homewood, Alabama.

Recipe by: Cooking Light, Jan/Feb 1995, page 106

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #432 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.