Back
from Irland with this great recipe of my favourite Bread. Really love
this brown bread with lightly salted butter or with Marmelade. Those ones
was made in Ireland in a real wood fired oven...already miss this oven.
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| Irish Soda Bread |
170g/6oz plain flour
½ tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
290ml/½ pint buttermilk
- Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C and dust a baking sheet with flour. Mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl, then rub in the butter. Pour in the buttermilk and mix it in quickly with a table knife, then bring the dough together very lightly with your fingertips (handle it very, very gently). Now shape it into a flat, round loaf measuring 20cm/8in in diameter.
- Put the loaf on the baking sheet and score a deep cross in the top. (Traditionally, this lets the fairies out, but it also helps the bread to cook through.) Bake for 30-35 minutes until the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow when tapped. If it isn’t ready after this time, turn it upside down on the baking sheet and bake for a few minutes more.
