Irish Soda Bread

Ingredients

• 3 ¹⁄₂cups flour
• ¹⁄₂cup sugar
• ¹⁄₂teaspoon baking soda
• 2teaspoons baking powder
• 1teaspoon salt
• 1pint sour cream
• 2eggs
• 2tablespoons caraway seeds(optional but I always use them)
• ³⁄₄cup raisins

Instructions

• Combine dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
• In a small bowl beat eggs and stir in sour cream.
• Add the egg and sour cream mixture to the dry ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon.
• Batter will be very thick.
• Add the raisins and caraway seeds and stir well with wooden spoon or knead in with your hands.
• Place batter in a greased 9 inch springform pan.
• Dust the top with enough flour so that you can pat the batter like a bread dough evenly in the pan without it sticking to your hands.
• With a knife make a shallow crisscross on the top.
• Bake for 50 minutes in a preheated 350ºF oven.