Soda Bread with Raisins and Orange Zest | #BreadBakers Recipe

On St. Patrick’s Day, I figure we’re all Irish.  I must have some Irish in my background. Somewhere on a bright green branch of my family tree of English, Scots, and Scandinavians (the Vikings got around, you This month on #BreadBakers, we’re celebrating this Irish holiday, and I confess a number of us chose to make a version of soda bread. I’m looking forward to seeing them The Irish aren’t the first to use baking soda as a bread leavener, but they made it famous with this bread that’s popular all over the world. The roots for this approach to bread-making stems from two challenges the Irish First, the wheat they grew was a soft variety, much softer the the hard wheat grown in England. Flour ground from hard wheat…