Irish Bread #2 - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 c. flour
1/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
2 Tbsp. caraway seed
1/4 c. butter
2 c. currants or raisins or both
1 1/3 c. buttermilk
1 egg
1 tsp. baking soda
1 beaten egg yolk

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375\u00b0.
Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and caraway seed.
Cut in butter until consistency of coarse meal.
Stir in raisins.
Combine buttermilk, 1 egg and baking soda.
Stir wet mixture into dry mixture just to moisten. Knead until smooth.
Shape into ball and place in a greased 9-inch round pan.
Press to fill pan.
Cut slashes (+) in center.
Brush with egg yolk.
Bake at 375\u00b0 for 1 hour or until toothpick comes out clean.
Cool 10 minutes.
Remove from pan; place on rack.