Clarissa Dickson Wright

Soda Bread

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Two Fat Ladies: Gastronomic Adventures (with Motorbike and Sidecar)
Two Fat Ladies

By Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 1996

  • About

I love soda bread. It brings back memories of holidays in Ireland as a child, and my mother’s tales of damper bread in Australia. I had forgotten about making it till I moved to Scotland and watched my friend Marianne making it as easy as breathing.

Ingredients

  • 225 g/8 oz plain wholemeal flour
  • 115 g/4

Method

Sift the flours, bicarbonate of soda and salt to taste together into a bowl. Tip in the bran left in the sieve. Rub in the fat, then add enough sour milk to make a dough.

Turn the dough on to a floured baking tray and shape it into a round. Slash a deep cross in the top. Bake in a preheated oven at 200°C/400°F/G