Irish Brown Soda Bread

Name: Irish Brown Soda Bread
Ingredients: 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); approx. 1 litre (4 cups) buttermilk; 500 g (1 lb/3⅓ cups) wholemeal (whole-wheat) flour; 1 tsp salt; 500 g (1 lb/3⅓ cups) strong flour (pure white bread-making flour)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home Made

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2011

About

For this bread you do not need yeast and it is also ready in about 30 minutes. A good recipe for a Sunday morning! While the bread is baking, boil the eggs and squeeze some oranges. Still warm from the oven and with slightly salted melted butter on top, I can easily eat an entire loaf…

Ingredients

500 g (1 lb/3⅓ cups) wholemeal (whole-wheat) flour

Breakfast
Bread
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F/Gas 6). Sieve the dry ingredients into a bowl. Add nearly all of the buttermilk to the mixture. If necessary add more buttermilk or more flour. Rapidly knead the mixture into a smooth dough, since the acid in the buttermilk will work immediately. Kneadi