RECIPE Brown Soda Bread Wendywoo and Irish soda bread

[Guest guest]

> Do you have a good Irish soda bread recipe????? One straight from

> Irelanf? Donna

 

Hey, Donna, while we're waiting for Wendywoo to post hers, I have one!

Actually from Ireland too - DH & I went there last September! I of

course came home with two cookbooks, maybe even three? - no the third

was a gardening book! *lol* (I also brought back tea. :-)

 

Anyway, here's one from one of those:

 

Brown Soda Bread

 

675 g or 1 1/2 lb or 6 cups wholemeal flour (the closest we have here

is whole wheat, unless you're lucky enough to find graham flour)

450 g or 1lb or 4 cups strong white flour (hi-protein white)

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)

2 tsp salt

approx. 800 ml or 1 1/2 pints or 3 1/2 cups buttermilk

 

Preheat the oven to 230*C or 450*F or Gas 8.

 

Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre

and slowly add most of the buttermilk until a soft dough is formed.

Add more buttermilk if necessary but don't let the mixture become too

moist. Turn the dough onto a floured surface and pat it gently into a

round, about 5 cm or 2 in. high. Place on a lightly floured baking

sheet and mark a deep cross on the surface with a floured knife. Bake

for 15 - 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 200*C or 400*For Gas 6

for another 20 - 25 minutes, until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

[Guest guest]

That's pretty much exactly what I use - half white and half brown but I like to

add 'My Own Variation' (so, you know you have an exclusive here folks) of two

good tablespoons of pinhead oatmeal. Now ordinary breakfast oats will not do

you will have to get the proper pinhead oatmeal probably from a specialist shop

like an organic shop. AND . . . I add one teaspoon black molasses.

 

At our favourite restaurant they also serve a freshly baked and deliciously

moist soda bread. It just doesn't keep until the next day so you have a good

excuse to eat it all up!

 

Woo

 

 

-

Amy

 

Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:14 PM

RECIPE Brown Soda Bread Re: Wendywoo and Irish soda

bread

 

 

> Do you have a good Irish soda bread recipe????? One straight from

> Irelanf? Donna

 

Hey, Donna, while we're waiting for Wendywoo to post hers, I have one!

Actually from Ireland too - DH & I went there last September! I of

course came home with two cookbooks, maybe even three? - no the third

was a gardening book! *lol* (I also brought back tea. :-)

 

Anyway, here's one from one of those:

 

Brown Soda Bread

 

675 g or 1 1/2 lb or 6 cups wholemeal flour (the closest we have here

is whole wheat, unless you're lucky enough to find graham flour)

450 g or 1lb or 4 cups strong white flour (hi-protein white)

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)

2 tsp salt

approx. 800 ml or 1 1/2 pints or 3 1/2 cups buttermilk

 

Preheat the oven to 230*C or 450*F or Gas 8.

 

Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre

and slowly add most of the buttermilk until a soft dough is formed.

Add more buttermilk if necessary but don't let the mixture become too

moist. Turn the dough onto a floured surface and pat it gently into a

round, about 5 cm or 2 in. high. Place on a lightly floured baking

sheet and mark a deep cross on the surface with a floured knife. Bake

for 15 - 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 200*C or 400*For Gas 6

for another 20 - 25 minutes, until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thanks, I printed this up. I love Irish soda bread. Donna

 

Amy <sandpiperhiker wrote:> Do you have a good Irish soda bread

recipe????? One straight from

> Irelanf? Donna

 

Hey, Donna, while we're waiting for Wendywoo to post hers, I have one!

Actually from Ireland too - DH & I went there last September! I of

course came home with two cookbooks, maybe even three? - no the third

was a gardening book! *lol* (I also brought back tea. :-)

 

Anyway, here's one from one of those:

 

Brown Soda Bread

 

675 g or 1 1/2 lb or 6 cups wholemeal flour (the closest we have here

is whole wheat, unless you're lucky enough to find graham flour)

450 g or 1lb or 4 cups strong white flour (hi-protein white)

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)

2 tsp salt

approx. 800 ml or 1 1/2 pints or 3 1/2 cups buttermilk

 

Preheat the oven to 230*C or 450*F or Gas 8.

 

Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre

and slowly add most of the buttermilk until a soft dough is formed.

Add more buttermilk if necessary but don't let the mixture become too

moist. Turn the dough onto a floured surface and pat it gently into a

round, about 5 cm or 2 in. high. Place on a lightly floured baking

sheet and mark a deep cross on the surface with a floured knife. Bake

for 15 - 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 200*C or 400*For Gas 6

for another 20 - 25 minutes, until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Wendywoo, Now I';ll have to go on a mission to find the pinhead oatmeal. never

heard of it. Thank you, Donna

 

Cahermuckee <cahermuckee wrote:That's pretty much exactly what I use -

half white and half brown but I like to add 'My Own Variation' (so, you know you

have an exclusive here folks) of two good tablespoons of pinhead oatmeal. Now

ordinary breakfast oats will not do you will have to get the proper pinhead

oatmeal probably from a specialist shop like an organic shop. AND . . . I add

one teaspoon black molasses.

 

At our favourite restaurant they also serve a freshly baked and deliciously

moist soda bread. It just doesn't keep until the next day so you have a good

excuse to eat it all up!

 

Woo

 

 

-

Amy

 

Thursday, October 13, 2005 9:14 PM

RECIPE Brown Soda Bread Re: Wendywoo and Irish soda

bread

 

 

> Do you have a good Irish soda bread recipe????? One straight from

> Irelanf? Donna

 

Hey, Donna, while we're waiting for Wendywoo to post hers, I have one!

Actually from Ireland too - DH & I went there last September! I of

course came home with two cookbooks, maybe even three? - no the third

was a gardening book! *lol* (I also brought back tea. :-)

 

Anyway, here's one from one of those:

 

Brown Soda Bread

 

675 g or 1 1/2 lb or 6 cups wholemeal flour (the closest we have here

is whole wheat, unless you're lucky enough to find graham flour)

450 g or 1lb or 4 cups strong white flour (hi-protein white)

2 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)

2 tsp salt

approx. 800 ml or 1 1/2 pints or 3 1/2 cups buttermilk

 

Preheat the oven to 230*C or 450*F or Gas 8.

 

Mix all the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre

and slowly add most of the buttermilk until a soft dough is formed.

Add more buttermilk if necessary but don't let the mixture become too

moist. Turn the dough onto a floured surface and pat it gently into a

round, about 5 cm or 2 in. high. Place on a lightly floured baking

sheet and mark a deep cross on the surface with a floured knife. Bake

for 15 - 20 minutes, then reduce the heat to 200*C or 400*For Gas 6

for another 20 - 25 minutes, until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped.