Brown Soda Bread

Name: Brown Soda Bread
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 1½ cups buttermilk; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon kosher or sea salt; 1 large egg; 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces; 6 tablespoons kibbled or cracked wheat; 6 tablespoons kibbled or cracked wheat; 1 teaspoon kosher or sea salt; 6 tablespoons wheat bran; 1½ cups whole-wheat flour; 1½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour

Preparation info

Makes
1
large loaf

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

From the Earth to the Table

By John Ash

Published 1995

About

This is a delicious Old World-style bread that I learned to make from a wonderful Irish neighbor.

Ingredients

1½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1½ cups whole-wheat flour
6

Europe
Ireland
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 450°F. In a large bowl, mix together the all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, kibbled wheat, wheat bran, salt, and baking soda. With your fingers, mix and turn it for 2 to 3 minutes to lighten the mixture and trap air into it. With your fingers or with a mixer, qui