Irish Soda Bread

3 cups whole grain pastry flour (or 2 cups whole grain pastry and 1 cup all purpose)
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 t powder
1 t soda
1-2 T sugar
1 T orange zest
1/2 cup currants soaked in 3 T water
1 stick butter at room temp
1 1/2 cup buttermilk

Mix dry, cut in butter, add currants and zest. Add buttermilk--start with 1 cup and then add more until a kneedable dough is formed. Kneed and then form into a circular loaf. Butter a souffle pan, Cut a cross into the top of the loaf, brush with buttermilk and sprinkle with sugar. Put in the souffle pan. Bake at 250 for 34-45 min (turn down to 325 if it starts to brown)