Florence Sullivan’s Irish Soda Bread

4 cup flour

1 tsp salt

¼ cup sugar

1 tsp baking powder

¼ cup butter

2 cups raisins

2 tbsps caraway seeds (to taste)

1 ½ cups buttermilk

1 egg

1 tsp soda

Sift into a large bowl  flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Stir in the caraway seeds

Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse corn meal Stir in raisins.

Combine the milk, egg and soda and then stir this mixture into the flour mixture until it is just mixed

Pour into a lightly greased 8” round Pyrex dish. Mixture should be round at the top. Cut a Cross approximately ½ to ¼ inch deep into the top. Bake for one hour at 375º

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