Buttering Pans for Irish Soda Bread

Buttering Pans for Irish Soda Bread
My name is Brandon Sarkis, on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going be showing you how to make Irish Soda Bread. You can see I have my two non-stick pans. I've got the larger one here, it's going to be for the dark soda bread. It's going to be more like a round, like a big loaf, like a big ball. Then you've got your regular small loaf pan here. It's an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 loaf pan. I'm going to take a stick of butter here and I?m going to unwrap it first. What we're going to do is butter these pans up. I'm just going to take like a paint brush or marker here and go over the inside of it. It helps if you get it soft first. The idea here is that even though these are non-stick pans by putting the butter in here, as whole butter cooks, it will crisp up the outside and give it a nice little bit of extra flavor. It will also help make the outside a little crunchier which is a very desirable trait. Make sure you get the corners and I go all the way to the top on the outer edge. So if worse thing's worse, the butter just rolls down into it. I missed a spot. There's the finished product. And we're going to take the big pan. I'm only going to butter up the bottom center of this pan just because the bread's going to be a big ball. It's not going to be touching the edges. The reason I'm doing this is to show you two different ways to do the bread: a loaf and just a big ball. That's pretty much it. We're ready to go.