Homemade brown soda bread

I loved the brown bread when we were in Ireland.

Sounds awesome, can't wait to make it.

Best bread I ever ate was in Ireland ....will try this recipe!

I have a recipe given to me by an old man from the west of Ireland, you'll have to come and try it, Weirs Pub, Multyfarnham, ask for some of Una's Brown Soda Bread, it's the best......... I know so, cause I've been told so......

HAVE MADE SEVERAL TIMES AND ENJOY IT EVERY TIME.

So simple and easy but what great taste. I can't wait to share with my Irish family.

Oh lordy...another reminder of years gone by, the big sack of flour, those sacks when empty were used for many's a thing, boiled then stiched together made warm sheets and pillow cases.

Ah Waterseskills story brings a tear to me eye, just the way I remember, on the griddle and no measurements needed. No big open fires around now, anyways, I am going to give this recipe a try, usually do my brown bread a bit differ and do not measure. Let you know which one is best.

the brown bread was my favorite bite in Ireland!

I wonder how this would compare with my Aunt Mary's bread...of course, with 18 children, when she baked her bread she started out with a 25lb sack of flour!

My Mother (County Cork) always made Irish soda bread. To this day no bakery comes even close.

Traditional Irish Soda bread is not baked in the oven. But on a cast iron griddle on top of the stove. This recipe is great but more accurately called 'Bannock Bread'. Soda Bread dough is rolled into a 'round' about 1 inch thick on a floured board then cut into four quarters known as 'farls'.Then placed on the hot griddle and turned over once as it bakes. As a young boy in Ireland I marvelled at how both my grandmothers could accomplish this without weighing scales or 'cups' or 'teaspoons' They cupped their hand to measure the flour, knew how much soda and salt to add by putting some on the palm and adjust the amount by sight. The buttermilk added with the same innate knowledge as to the correct consistency of the dough. There was nothing like a warm Soda Farl fresh off the griddle with a pat of butter and homemade blackcurrant jam. Traditional Irish Soda farls can be found at bakeries and grocery stores around 44th Street in Sunnyside N.Y. Slan agus Beannacht.

This is a great recipe, very much like the B&B's and small local bakeries. Can someone help us out with an Irish scone recipe?

Now is this the same Irish brown bread I have enjoyed at Irish B & B's?