Irish Soda Bread

Name: Irish Soda Bread
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 300 g plain flour; 300 g wholemeal flour; 2 tsp salt; 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 600 ml buttermilk

Niall Twomey @niall

This is a super simple bread recipe. I quite like it because you don't need to let the dough prove at all, which makes it seem like a super fast bread to make! :)

This can be made vegan by replacing the buttermilk with soy milk with some added lemon juice.

This is a super simple bread recipe. I quite like it because you don't need to let the dough prove at all, which makes it seem like a super fast bread to make! :)

This can be made vegan by replacing the buttermilk with soy milk with some added lemon juice.

Niall Twomey @niall

This is a super simple bread recipe. I quite like it because you don't need to let the dough prove at all, which makes it seem like a super fast bread to make! :)

This can be made vegan by replacing the buttermilk with soy milk with some added lemon juice.

This is a super simple bread recipe. I quite like it because you don't need to let the dough prove at all, which makes it seem like a super fast bread to make! :)

This can be made vegan by replacing the buttermilk with soy milk with some added lemon juice.

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Ingredients

300 gplain flour
300 gwholemeal flour
2 tspsalt
2 tspbicarbonate of soda
600 mlbuttermilk

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Steps

1

Preheat the oven to 220 C.
2

Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
3

Add the buttermilk in slowly. Mix initially with a spoon and use your hands when it becomes too tough.
Move the formed dough to a floured surface. The books I've read say that you shouldn't handle these doughs too much, so just kneed just enough to bring it together into a nice sphere, and place on some baking paper. I use a pizza stone for all bread-like foods.
4

Flatten the dough and scour deeply with a serrated knife.
5

Bake at 220 for about 15 mins. Then drop the temperature to 200 and cook for 20-25 mins.
6

Let cool before digging in. This is beautiful warm, with lavish coatings of butter, and dipped into soup! :)