Irish Soda Bread - 2 Pack

St. Patrick’s Day is as big a holiday in Boston as Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Some businesses even close for the day to allow the city’s many Irish and friends-of-the-Irish celebrate in the annual day-long parade. At Flour, they commemorate the special occasion for the whole month of March by offering this quick bread as a popular breakfast treat. Traditionally, Irish soda bread can be a bit dry and it is meant to be toasted and served with a lot of butter. They make theirs with the butter mixed directly into the dough to create a tender crumb, and they flavor it with 100% rye flour, caraway seeds, currants, and then even more butter. It’s richer than the classic, but don’t let that stop you from serving it with a side of soft butter!

Widely regarded as one of the very best bakeries in America, Boston’s iconic Flour Bakery + Cafe is the creation of legendary pastry chef Joanne Chang. Chang spent years honing her craft at some of the country’s top restaurants before opening Flour in Boston’s South End with her husband Christopher Myers in 2000. Her array of wildly delicious sticky buns, cinnamon rolls, cookies, muffins, cakes, pies, and more quickly attracted a loyal following, and the awards and accolades soon began to roll in. Chang was awarded the James Beard Award for Outstanding Baker in 2016, and today there are nine Flour Bakery + Cafe locations across Boston and Cambridge.