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Traditional Brown Soda Bread

I love bread in all its forms, and I think there’s probably not a loaf I don’t like. Except maybe pumpernickel – I still haven’t quite come to terms with how to eat it, though I like the flavour. It always reminds me of the Baby-Sitter’s Club as it could always be found at Dawn “Kale-Juice-Drinking-Bitch”* Schafer’s house. HEALTH FOOD.

I love soda bread and damper, which I make often, but it wasn’t until recently that I managed to actually nail brown soda bread. I have mentioned before how I tried to make it one other time and it was so horrific I really just couldn’t come at the thought of attempting it again (these tips will help, and make you nostalgic for soda bread-baking Irish grandmothers).

But attempt it I did, and it was so good I ate almost the whole thing in one go. I ate it toasted for breakfast for the next several days and have been happily making it regularly ever since. It’s like pringles – once you pop, you can’t stop. It has such a unique flavour (nutty and slightly sweet) that it develops itself into one hell of a craving and the only way to survive is to make this brown bread regularly. With PLENTY of salted, good-quality butter.

Ok jam too if you want. Marmalade even! GOLDEN SYRUP. Tick!

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Traditional Brown Soda Bread

  • Author: Stacey Roberts | Veggie Mama
  • Prep Time: 5
  • Cook Time: 50 mins
  • Total Time: 55 mins
  • Yield: 1 loaf 1x
  • Category: Bread
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: Irish
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Description

Once you make this loaf, you won’t ever be able to forget it!

Scale

Ingredients

  • 250g wholemeal flour
  • 200g plain white flour
  • 1 teaspoon bicarb
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 350ml buttermilk (you may need more or less, depending)
  • 1 teaspoon honey

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C
  2. In a large bowl, combine the flours and bicarb.
  3. In a small bowl or jug, beat the egg with the buttermilk and honey until combined.
  4. Add to the flour mix and stir until it comes together to form a dough. You may need a little extra buttermilk here, it should be quite soft.
  5. Form into a round loaf and place on a tray. Cut a cross into the top of the dough (to let the fairies out, of course!)
  6. Bake for 45-50 minutes until golden and the bottom sounds hollow when tapped.
  7. Remove from the heat and wrap in a clean tea towel to prevent the crust from getting too hard.

Notes

Based on the Bord Bira recipe.

Keywords: brown bread, Irish brown bread, brown soda bread, Irish soda bread, Irish wheaten bread, wheaten soda bread, traditional wheaten soda bread,

*Carly once called her this in one of our podcast episodes and I may have died laughing. I very much enjoy our confusion about mathematics.

Stacey

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6 years ago

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