HOMEMADE BROWN SODA BREAD
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups low-fat buttermilk
Cooking spray
Directions
Preheat oven to 450F
Combine the flours, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Mix thoroughly. Make a well in the center of mixture. Add buttermilk to flour mixture; stir until blended (dough will be sticky). Turn dough out onto a generously floured surface. Knead lightly 4 to 5 times. Shape dough into an 8-inch round loaf; place on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
Bake at 450 for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 400 and continue to bake for another 15 minutes, or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped underneath. Cool on a wire rack. Simple and delicious!
Healthy tip: To reduce calories simply use low-fat buttermilk instead of full-fat buttermilk
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.JohnKinMD | Sep 14, 2011, 10:34 AM EDT
I loved the brown bread when we were in Ireland.
TRussell | Mar 26, 2011, 09:18 PM EDT
Sounds awesome, can't wait to make it.
patsyingoldsy | Mar 15, 2011, 06:39 AM EDT
Best bread I ever ate was in Ireland ....will try this recipe!
weirspub | Jan 24, 2011, 05:47 PM EST
I have a recipe given to me by an old man from the west of Ireland, you'll have to come and try it, Weirs Pub, Multyfarnham, ask for some of Una's Brown Soda Bread, it's the best......... I know so, cause I've been told so......
maxriley | Jan 12, 2011, 12:39 PM EST
HAVE MADE SEVERAL TIMES AND ENJOY IT EVERY TIME.
maxriley | Oct 29, 2010, 09:42 AM EDT
So simple and easy but what great taste. I can't wait to share with my Irish family.
mamaginnty | Oct 10, 2010, 04:39 PM EDT
Oh lordy...another reminder of years gone by, the big sack of flour, those sacks when empty were used for many's a thing, boiled then stiched together made warm sheets and pillow cases.
mamaginnty | Oct 10, 2010, 04:32 PM EDT
Ah Waterseskills story brings a tear to me eye, just the way I remember, on the griddle and no measurements needed. No big open fires around now, anyways, I am going to give this recipe a try, usually do my brown bread a bit differ and do not measure. Let you know which one is best.
ORourkes | Sep 22, 2010, 01:31 PM EDT
the brown bread was my favorite bite in Ireland!
GuinnessGrrl | Jun 30, 2010, 09:22 PM EDT
I wonder how this would compare with my Aunt Mary's bread...of course, with 18 children, when she baked her bread she started out with a 25lb sack of flour!
bronxjames | Jun 20, 2010, 09:22 AM EDT
My Mother (County Cork) always made Irish soda bread. To this day no bakery comes even close.
Watereskhill | May 03, 2010, 11:26 AM EDT
Traditional Irish Soda bread is not baked in the oven. But on a cast iron griddle on top of the stove. This recipe is great but more accurately called 'Bannock Bread'. Soda Bread dough is rolled into a 'round' about 1 inch thick on a floured board then cut into four quarters known as 'farls'.Then placed on the hot griddle and turned over once as it bakes. As a young boy in Ireland I marvelled at how both my grandmothers could accomplish this without weighing scales or 'cups' or 'teaspoons' They cupped their hand to measure the flour, knew how much soda and salt to add by putting some on the palm and adjust the amount by sight. The buttermilk added with the same innate knowledge as to the correct consistency of the dough. There was nothing like a warm Soda Farl fresh off the griddle with a pat of butter and homemade blackcurrant jam. Traditional Irish Soda farls can be found at bakeries and grocery stores around 44th Street in Sunnyside N.Y. Slan agus Beannacht.
Sweeneyastray | May 02, 2010, 09:39 AM EDT
This is a great recipe, very much like the B&B's and small local bakeries. Can someone help us out with an Irish scone recipe?
carrickcourt | Mar 11, 2010, 09:10 AM EST
Now is this the same Irish brown bread I have enjoyed at Irish B & B's?