Irish Soda Bread Biscuits

Henri helped his mother in the kitchen today to make Irish soda bread biscuits for next weekend's St. Patrick's Day dinner at her work. The recipe (see below) was pretty simple and we tripled it to make three dozen biscuits.

Ingredients

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup of sugar (depending on how sweet you want them)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 teaspoons caraway seeds
• 1/2 to 1 cup of raisins
• 1 1/4 cups buttermilk

Method 

1 Preheat oven to 425°F. Butter a standard muffin pan.
2 In a large bowl, vigorously whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt.
3 Cut the butter into tablespoon sized pieces into the bowl of flour. Using your (clean) fingers, work the butter into the flour, schmooshing (is that a technical term?) the butter between your fingers and mixing with the flour until the mixture resembles a coarse meal. If you are using raisins, caraway seeds, or any other add-ins, mix them into the mixture now.