Quick soda bread

Name: Quick soda bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Makes 1 large Loaf
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon caster (superfine) sugar; 1 teaspoon salt; 30 g (1 oz) chilled butter, cubed; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 650 ml (22½floz) buttermilk; 250 g (9 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour; 250 g (9 oz) wholemeal plain (whole-wheat all-purpose) flour

Preparation info

Makes
1
large Loaf

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Vegetarian

By Alice Hart

Published 2018

About

You can use all plain white flour in this recipe to make it a bit more refined, or half rye or spelt flour to increase the nutty overtones. The dough might seem sticky and shaggy at first, but don’t worry – it’s meant to look that way. And remember that a light hand really does produce a light soda bread.

Ingredients

250 g (9 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour
250 g (9

Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F/Gas 6) and line a baking tray with baking paper.

Sift the flours into a mixing bowl, adding all the bran you catch in the sieve except for 1 tablespoon