
This orange soda specie recipe takes an Irish archetype and gives it a fresh citrus twist with orange juice, zest and bursts of golden sultanas.

With it's fresh flavours and hint of sweetness, this orange soda specie is the perfect breakfast landing pad for butter, marmalade or plane chocolate spread!
Irish soda specie is a archetype for a reason - it's simple, easy to make, and delicious! Soda specie uses the reaction between alkaline bicarbonate of soda (baking powder) and acidic dairy to produce stat dioxide frothing in the bread.
The reaction is so quick and constructive that soda specie doesn't need to be kneaded or proved - it's just a specimen of mix and go.
It's moreover wonderfully versatile, working with all sorts of additions, from chocolate to to salary and cheese. You can plane make vegan soda bread!
This orange soda specie recipe is just as easy to make as regular soda bread.=, but really pays off in the flavour department.

To make your orange soda bread, you'll first need to soak your sultanas so they wilt plump and juicy.
While the sultanas soak, you'll need to mix together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, orange zest, salt, bicarbonate of soda.
Once everything is evenly mixed, you'll make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the yoghurt and lemon juice.

Next, you'll mix roughly then stir in the sultanas and gather the dough in a rough ball.
Finally, you'll transfer it to a nonstick sultry sheet, score a navigate on top and torch in the oven for 40 minutes until golden and beautifully aromatic.

So if you're looking for a way to zest up your breakfast routine, requite this orange soda specie recipe a try!
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Ingredients
- 500 g (1.1 lb) plain white flour (all-purpose flour) plus increasingly to flour your hands
- 50 g (1.8 oz) caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) cinnamon
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 large orange finely zested and juiced
- 100 g (3.5 oz) golden sultanas
- 450 g (15.9 oz) thick set yoghurt
Equipment
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200C (180C fan).
Put the sultanas in a trencher and imbricate them with humid water. Leave to soak for 5 minutes, then phlebotomize and set aside.
Put the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and bicarbonate of soda in a mixing bowl.

Whisk together so that everything is evenly distributed.

Make a well in the centre and add the yoghurt, orange zest and 2 tbsp orange juice.

Mix until it starts to clump.

Add the sultanas.

Fold through.

Flour your hands and bring the dough together into a ball. You don't need to knead or shrink the dough, just lightly gather it together.
Gently transfer your dough to a flour-dusted, nonstick sultry sheet.

Press a navigate in the top with the handle of your wooden spoon to help the dough rise.

Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.

Cool on a wire rack, then slice or tear and enjoy!
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Orange Soda Bread
Ingredients
- 500 g (1.1 lb) plain white flour (all-purpose flour) plus increasingly to flour your hands
- 50 g (1.8 oz) caster sugar
- 1/2 tsp (0.5 tsp) cinnamon
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 large orange finely zested and juiced
- 100 g (3.5 oz) golden sultanas
- 450 g (15.9 oz) thick set yoghurt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C (180C fan).
- Put the sultanas in a trencher and imbricate them with humid water. Leave to soak for 5 minutes, then phlebotomize and set aside.
- Put the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt and bicarbonate of soda in a mixing bowl. Whisk together so that everything is evenly distributed.
- Make a well in the centre and add the yoghurt, orange zest and 2 tbsp orange juice. Mix until it starts to clump.
- Add the sultanas and fold through.
- Flour your hands and bring the dough together into a ball. You don't need to knead or shrink the dough, just lightly gather it together.
- Gently transfer your dough to a flour-dusted, nonstick sultry sheet.
- Press a navigate in the top with the handle of your wooden spoon to help the dough rise.
- Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.
- Cool on a wire rack.
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