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Sweet Irish Soda Bread

Here’s an awesome recipe for Irish Soda Bread. Lightly sweetened with a very tender crumb, it’s absolutely delicious all by itself, toasted with jam, or plain with a healthy schmear of Irish butter, which is our favorite way to eat it. There’s no yeast in this recipe, so it can be made in a fairly short amount of time. Just bring a stick of butter to room temperature, then mix, shape and bake. That’s it—give it a go!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and buttermilk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 3,667 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8
Prep10 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Flour + buttermilktop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sugar + buttermilktop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Butter + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together118,511 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Flour + eggtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together104,138 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs