Irish Quick Breads Recipes

"This super easy and quick to make soda bread tastes lovely and is the perfect accompaniement to soup or stew or some hearty cheese. I like that there is neither sugar nor fat in this recipe and it still comes out moist and yummy."

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Ingredients: sea salt, whole wheat flour...

"This is the soda bread I grew up with that my mother always made. We had it year-round and not just for St. Patrick's Day."

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Ingredients: eggs, raisins, sugar...

"Adapted from a recipe by Sarah Cook in GoodFood magazine. Best eaten warm, freshly baked. It's best by far not to substitute any ingredient."

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Ingredients: dates, mixed spice, oats...

"Has a soft textured, almost biscuit-like crumb. From Epicurious."

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Ingredients: egg whites, fresh rosemary...

"From Beatrice Ojakangas’ book, Great Holiday Baking Book. This is a quick bread that’s great for snaking or for serving with a meal. The bread is delicious served warm from the oven or served at room temperature. St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, is named after St. Patrick, the British-born monk who is credited with driving the snakes..."

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Ingredients: eggs, salt, unsalted butter...

"A taste of Ireland, these hearty, flaky scones are great warm with butter or jam or dipped into some seafood chowder! Cooking them on a preheated baking sheet gives them a flavor similar to cooking pancakes on a hot griddle."

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Ingredients: wheat bran, salt...

"My friend, Laura, is not eating grain for Lent, but wanted something 'bread-y'. So she made up this recipe: Scrumptious soda bread, with NO GRAIN! Light, fluffy, a bit sweet, but not cake-y, at all. Much better than the stuff made with wheat, actually."

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Ingredients: cream, currants, almond meal...

"Growing up in an Irish household, I have had the pleasure of tasting many a soda bread. It seems like every woman had her own recipe, and I have tasted them all. Some are brown and some are white, some have raisins and caraways, some have only one or neither, some are cakey and some are bready, some are round and some are oblong. This recipe uses..."

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Ingredients: eggs, raisins, salt...

"This has a fantastic texture!! Served with Guinness and Beef Stew!!"

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Ingredients: cooking spray, steel cut oats...

"This is a wonderfully moist and fragrant tea loaf, elegantly studded with pineapple, mango and aromatic candied stem-ginger. The addition of Darjeeling tea adds a lovely delicate floral-muscatel note. Jasmine tea would also be very lovely, you may use any tea of your choice. Make at least one day in advance of serving, to allow flavors to meld properly,..."

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Ingredients: cooking oil, tea leaves, eggs...

"A delightful and EASY scone recipe that is perfect for a proper afternoon tea or to take on a picnic. Dried sour cherries are sensational and give a deep essence of cherry flavour to these scones, whilst the buttermilk makes them light and airy. This is a casual eating scone, easy to rustle up, and is perfect when eaten fresh from the oven with butter..."

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Ingredients: bicarbonate of soda, granulated sugar...