Irish Stout and Walnut Soda Bread

Name: Irish Stout and Walnut Soda Bread
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 40 g caster sugar; 10 g salt; 375 ml milk; 110 g honey or golden syrup; 110 g honey or golden syrup; 110 g treacle; 40 g butter, melted; 100 ml stout, such as Murphy’s, Beamish, Guinness or your favourite craft stout; 160 g plain flour; 10 g bicarbonate of soda; 315 g wholemeal flour; 60 g porridge oats; 60 g walnuts, roughly chopped; 100 ml stout, such as Murphy’s, Beamish, Guinness or your favourite craft stout; 100 ml stout, such as Murphy’s, Beamish, Guinness or your favourite craft stout; 100 ml stout, such as Murphy’s, Beamish, Guinness or your favourite craft stout

Preparation info

Makes
1
Loaf

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Ballymaloe Bread Book

By Darina Allen

Published 2023

About

Everyone loves this ‘new age’ soda bread and it keeps well. Try using a local stout from the many new Irish craft breweries. Thank you to Maggie Draddy for sharing her favourite recipe.

Ingredients

160 g plain flour
10 g bicarbonate of soda
315 g

Europe
Ireland
Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/gas mark 2. Line a 13cm × 20cm (450g) loaf tin or three small loaf tins (14.6cm × 7.6cm) with parchment paper.

Sieve the plain flour and bicarb into a large bowl. Add the wholemeal flour, oats, walnuts, sugar and salt. Mix together and make a wel