Irish Soda Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 c. unbleached white all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp. salt
5 Tbsp. sugar
1 Tbsp. caraway seed
1 c. golden raisins
1/2 c. currants
4 Tbsp. margarine
2 c. buttermilk

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0.
Butter and flour a round glass or tin cake pan.
Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and sugar.
Add caraway seed.
Using a pastry cutter, two knives or your fingers, cut in the margarine until it is the consistency of fine meal.
Add raisins.
Pour in the buttermilk; mix well.
When the flour is just incorporated, turn the dough out onto a floured board and knead the dough for about 1 to 2 minutes, until it is smooth and no longer sticky.
Form into an 8-inch circle.