Mixing Leavening with Wet Ingredients for Irish Soda Bread

Mixing Leavening with Wet Ingredients for Irish Soda Bread
My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village today I'm going to show you how to make Irish soda bread. So a couple of more stirs, it looks like everything is nicely mixed up, there is not any lumps in there. You want to make sure you don't get any lumps out of it because lumps will come out of this nasty pockets of flour when you are finished. So let's dump our baking soda, baking powder, sugar and salt (make a hole in the middle) dump that right in and stir this in and we want to make sure to work this through. You can see that this dough looks like it's going to be a little bit sticky and I want to stir for a couple of minutes to see if it tightens up. If not I want to add a little more flour to it so we're going to make sure I get everything from the bottom and ya it's still a little bit gloopy. So I'm just going to grab a little bit of the flour over here, probably about ounce in half or two ounces of flour here. Put that on top and when you stir this back in you don't want to stir full force because you will just get flour all over the place. So stir nice and delicately on the top until you get it all folded in and we are going to stir it all the way through. It looks like it is all better so we're going to stir this all the way to the bottom. Make sure we knock any pockets out of there, any balls of flour. I'm going to scrap all this down to the bottom, believe it or not this is the final product, so what I'm going to do is split this in two different portions. I'm going to show you how to make the dark soda breads and as well right now.