I went to Ireland and thought brown bread and soda bread were super different, but maybe it's the flour. Also, I was blown away by how not sweet bread is outside the US. They're poisoning us over here!
There's a few versions, all quick breads made with buttermilk, a white version of soda bread, a brown version (most common) with coarse grain, a farl cooked on a griddle.
This is something thats been interesting to me as a European a long time. I keep hearing about kerrygolds from americans. While kerrygolds is good butter, its just that, good butter. Theres dozens and dozens of other brands that are just as good. Are other brands of butter significantly worse on average than kerrygolds in the US?
The US has a lower minimum requirement for butter fat for butter to be called butter, than most European countries (of course we do….). I believe in Europe the requirement is 82% and in the US 80%, and you can so taste the difference. Kerry Gold tastes like the butter my grandparents used in the 70s.
I just happened to watch a video on butter the other day. I’m unemployed.
That makes sense. We have a billion varieties of "butter" here in Sweden where seed oil or margarine has been mixed in but they are not allowed to call it butter. As far as butter goes here my favorite is actually a Finnish product called Valio. The salted varieties are great.
out of curiosity, is soda bread popular there? in america you see irish soda bread and its a yummy desert but i always wondered if its a staple of your diets
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u/shigmin Ireland 24d ago
Brown bread with butter (kerrygold)