Irish Soda Bread

I made Irish soda bread today! First I baked a regular loaf of bread in my nice new loaf pan; while it was rising and baking I mixed and kneaded the dough for the soda bread. It doesn't have any yeast in it, but it rose in the oven like crazy! My regular bread (with yeast) gets close to doubling in size while rising, then gets a bit bigger in the oven, but the soda bread at least quadrupled in size. And it was yummy. I was so glad, I love it when things turn out :) We've gone through about 2/3 of it by now, so what's left in the picture isn't that big. Here's the recipe:

2 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus 1/4 cup flour - divided

1/3 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon salt

2 large eggs

1 cup buttermilk - I used buttermilk powder with water

2/3 cup raisins

-Preheat oven to 325*.

-Line large cookie sheet with parchment powder. I used PAM.

-Whisk together 2 3/4 cup flour with sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir in raisins. I added the buttermilk powder at this stage.

-In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs and buttermilk. I added the water that goes with the buttermilk powder here.

-Stir buttermilk-egg mixture into dry ingredients using a wooden spoon. Mix until just combined.

-Take remaining 1/4 cup of flour and sprinkle onto work surface. Lightly flour hands and turn and knead dough to incorporate the flour. Form the dough into a 6 inch round and place on cookie sheet and cut a deep "x" in the top of the loaf.

-Bake until toothpick [or knife] inserted in center comes clean or about 60 minutes. I took mine out after 48 minutes.

-Transfer to cooling rack.