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Traditional Irish Soda Bread

Homemade soda bread
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Prep Time 1 hour
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 400 g Wholemeal Flour
  • 75 g Plain White Flour
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Bread soda
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 tbsp Oil of choice (I used sunflower oil here)
  • 1 tsp Treacle/Raw Honey or Brown Sugar
  • 425 ml Buttermilk

Equipment

  • 1 Bread Loaf Tin

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celsius or 400 degrees fahrenheit
  2. Make sure to coat the inside of the bread tin well with oil
  3. Place all the dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix well
  4. Whisk the egg, add to the oil, treacle and the buttermilk
  5. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients
  6. Mix well, adding more buttermilk if necessary (mixture should be soft and slightly sloppy)
  7. Pour into oiled tin and if you wish pop some seeds on top such as sesame, sunflower or mixed seed like I have here
  8. Bake for about an hour or until the bread is nice and crusty and sounds hollow when tapped
  9. Leave to cool on a wire rack before cutting