Brown Seedy Soda Bread

Name: Brown Seedy Soda Bread
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 15 g butter; 1 small egg; 450 ml buttermilk (approx.); ½ teaspoon kibbled wheat; 2–3 teaspoons sesame seeds; 1 rounded teaspoon dark soft brown sugar; 1 rounded teaspoon salt; 1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda, finely sieved; 225 g plain flour; 225 g brown wholemeal flour; 50 g granary flour; 50 g kibbled wheat; oil, for greasing; ½ teaspoon sesame seeds

Preparation info

Makes
1
Loaf

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Ballymaloe Bread Book

By Darina Allen

Published 2023

About

This contemporary Irish soda bread is baked in a tin or tins. Just weigh, mix and pour into the tin and bake. The addition of seeds gives this bread a delicious extra crunch.

Ingredients

oil, for greasing
225 g plain flour
225 g brown wholemeal flour

Europe
Ireland
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6. Grease one 13cm × 20cm (450g) loaf tin or three small loaf tins (14.6cm × 7.6cm) well with oil.

In a large, wide bowl, mix the flours, kibbled wheat, sesame seeds, brown sugar, salt and bicarbonate of soda together, then rub in the bu