This month’s challenge was to make Irish soda bread, or a bread leavened with baking soda, baking powder, and buttermilk instead of yeast. It was very easy to put together, but the resulting bread was very much similar to Southern buttermilk biscuits, but without the buttery flakiness since the dough wasn’t cut with nearly as much fat. It honestly wasn’t my favorite challenge–I guess I like the taste of yeast in my breads–but it was a nice, simple challenge and my daughter definitely liked it.

For the month of September Meredith from the Poco Loco Olsons challenged us to experiment with soda bread.