Irish Soda Bread is a traditional Irish bread made with flour, salt, baking soda and soured milk. The recipe was introduced to Ireland in the 1840s as a method of baking leavened bread using the soft wheat indigenous to Ireland.
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Basic soda bread is made with flour, salt, baking soda and soured milk
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Made with baking soda and not yeastDLTK's: Irish Soda Bread
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Yeast is not effective in leavening soft wheatDLTK's: Irish Soda Bread
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The baking soda and milk combine to create soda bubbles
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Soda bread came about as an invention of necessity in Ireland. Ireland's climate is not conducive to growing hard wheats that are usually used in bread making.WiseGeek.com: What is Irish Soda Bread? Ireland's domestic wheat was mostly of the soft, starchy variety that does not respond to yeast leavening.DLTK's: Irish Soda Bread Combining [
