Description
An old family recipe that gets rave reviews!
Ingredients
- 1 cup raisins
- ½ cup whiskey
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel (Optional)
- 1 tablespoon caraway seeds (Optional)
- 1 ⅓ cups buttermilk
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- ½ cup butter at room temperature
Instructions
- Place raisins in a small bowl; pour in whiskey and allow to soak overnight.
- The next day
- drain raisins and reserve the leftover whiskey.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Grease a 2-quart casserole dish.
- Whisk together flour
- sugar
- baking powder
- salt
- and baking soda in a large bowl.
- Stir drained raisins
- orange peel
- and caraway seeds into dry ingredients.
- Beat in buttermilk and 1/4 cup melted butter to make a thick batter.
- Transfer batter to prepared casserole dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until top is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
- about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
- Beat 1/2 cup butter in a bowl until fluffy; beat in reserved whiskey
- 1 teaspoon at a time
- to taste. Serve with soda bread.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Total Time: 9 hrs 25 mins
Servings: 12