There's a wide variation in soda bread recipes out there--the original is supposedly without raisins, but most versions I've seen have raisins, including my family's recipe with called for both brown & golden raisins. And it is a sweet-ish bread, kind of halfway between bread and cake.
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Date: 2009-03-14 06:48 pm (UTC)I've never tried Irish soda bread, but if it's supposed to have raisins and had caraway seeds instead, I can see how that would make you go Blech!.
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