SODA BREAD Irish Wholemeal and Baking Soda Bread – Ingredients – 250 g wholemeal flour 200 g plain white flour 1 tsp bread soda, sieved 1 tsp salt 1 egg 350 ml buttermilk 1 tsp honey No fermenting time – 30’-35’ baking Yield 1 loaf – Instructions – • Preheat the oven to 200° C. • Bake for 45-50 minutes. To know when it is cooked simply • Mix the flour, bread soda and salt together in a bowl. tap the bottom of the loaf – it will sound hollow when it is fully cooked. Remove from the tin and wrap in a clean tea • Combine the egg with the buttermilk and honey, then mix towel while cooling. This will keep the crust soft. into the flour. Add a little more buttermilk if the mixture is dry – the dough should be soft. • Spread with creamy Irish butter and drizzle over some Irish honey. • Pour into a lightly oiled loaf tin. Sprinkle the sesame seeds or porridge oats over the top of the loaf. This Irish classic quick bread owns a flavour that makes its regions it is shaped and baked as a round loaf with a cross consumer travel into the history books. It surprises some marked on top. In the north regions of the country, the soda people to learn that this traditional recipe hasn’t been bread is flattened into a round disc and divided into four around for thousands of years. Baking soda was first was equal triangular shapes; each triangle is then cooked on a flat introduced to Ireland around the 1840s. griddle. This method of cooking the soda bread is very quick, Soda bread is shaped in different shapes based on the region ideal for when unexpected guests arrive for a bit of banter. of Ireland in which it is being prepared. In the southern .