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Irish Bannock
Irish Bannock is a traditional Northern Irish recipe for a classic scone-like dough of flour, sugar, butter, buttermilk and currants leavened with baking powder and bicarbonate of soda that is kneaded and baked as a large round. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Northern Irish version of: Irish Bannock.
prep time
20 minutes
cook time
40 minutes
Total Time:
60 minutes
Serves:
10
Rating: 
Tags : Milk RecipesBaking RecipesCake RecipesBritish Recipes
This is a Northern Irish dish, brought over by the Scots who were settled there in the seventeenth century.
Ingredients:
250g plain flour
25g caster sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp butter
240ml buttermilk
70g currants
Method:
Sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Add the sugar and stir to combine. Add the butter and rub into the flour mixture with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the buttermilk a little at a time and combine until the dough is soft then stir-in the currants.
Turn the dough onto a lightly-floured work surface then knead for 5 minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic. Transfer to a lightly-oiled baking sheet and form into an 18cm round. Cut a 2cm deep cross across the top then score with another cross diagonal to this one.
Place in an oven pre-heated to 190°C and bake for about 40 minutes, or until the bannock is lightly golden and cooked through.
