Categories: Irish, bread

Ingredients

• 1-1/3 cup whole milk
• 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
• 3 cups all purpose flour,with additional for dusting
• 2-1/2 tsp coarse salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 oz (4 Tbsp) cold, unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 cup unprocessed wheat bran
• 1/4 cup caraway seeds
• 1 cup (5 oz) raisins
• salted butter, preferably Irish, for serving

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Line a baking sheet with parchment.

3. Mix milk and vinegar in a small bowl and let stand until thickened, about 5 minutes.

4. Whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl.

5. Cut in unsalted butter with a pastry cutter or with 2 knives until the mixture resembles coarse meal.

6. Add bran, caraway seeds, and raisins. Mix to distribute.

7. Pour milk into flour mixture; Stir until dough just holds together but is still sticky.

8. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface.

9. Pat and press the dough gently into a round, dome-shaped loaf about 7 inches in diameter. Transfer to prepared sheet.

10. Lightly dust top of loaf with flour.

11. With a sharp knife, cut an X into the top, 3/4 inch deep.

12. Bake, rotating 1/2 way through the baking time, until loaf is golden brown and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hr 10 min.

13. Let cool on a wire rack. Best eaten the day it is made. Serve with butter.

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