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Monday, 22 March 2010

Soda Bread


There were a lot of Irish Soda Bread recipes on the web last week celebrating St Patrick's Day.  I really like soda bread, so I thought I would make some too.

Irish Soda Bread
275g wholemeal flour
75g plain flour, plus a little extra
50g pinhead oatmeal
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
11/2 tsp salt
1tsp sugar
1 egg
1 234ml carton of buttermilk (I didn't have any so used 2tbsp of yogurt and made up the liquid with milk)
1tbsp rolled oats (I used more pinhead oatmeal)

Preheat the oven to 190C/Gas Mark 5.  Grease a baking tray.  PUt the flours, oatmeal, bicarbonate of soda, salt and sugar in a large bowl and mix.  Beat the egg and buttermilk together and add them.  Mix with a fork and then your hands to form a smooth dough.  Shape the dough into an oval, add a dusting of flour, brush wiht milk and sprinkle with oats.  Use the blunt side of a knife to make indentations diagonally across the bread.
Bake for 50-60 minutes, then put on a wire rack to cool.

I found the oven was too hot as my bread had a bit in the middle that wasn't quite cooked,  I had to take it out after about 40 minutes or it would have burned.  I'll try again with a cooler oven.

It does taste fantastic though, the real deal!

posted by Janice @ 09:43

8 Comments:

At 22 March 2010 at 13:34 , Blogger Chele said...

That looks like a wonderful crusty loaf of soda bread. Yum!

 
At 22 March 2010 at 15:55 , Blogger GratefulPrayerThankfulHeart said...

I love soda bread too, Janice! I made a loaf, sliced it up and froze it so I will eat just a slice instead of the whole loaf!

 
At 22 March 2010 at 16:09 , Blogger GratefulPrayerThankfulHeart said...

Me again... I noticed you do not include currents/raisins or caraway seed in your soda bread. Since you are a lot closer to Ireland, I guess yours is closer to the original.

 
At 23 March 2010 at 16:38 , Blogger chow and chatter said...

wow love this kind of bread looks amazing enjoying the new kitchen LOL

 
At 23 March 2010 at 21:49 , Blogger Choclette said...

This looks so good. I'm going to have to try soda bread using oatmeal as I've seen so many others using this.

 
At 26 March 2010 at 22:01 , Anonymous Wendy said...

I love soda bread! I'm going to give your recipe a go!

 
At 1 March 2011 at 02:36 , Blogger Becky said...

What is the wholemeal flour? Can I use wheat- or wheat pastry flour?

 
At 1 March 2011 at 18:51 , Blogger Janice said...

Hi Becky
Wholemeal flour is 'brown', it has all the bran in it as well as the wheatgerm. I checked on a conversion terms website and it is described as 'wholewheat' It will work with any flour even all purpose white, but is better with the wholemeal. Enjoy.

 

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