Soda bread
Bread on bicarbonate and buttermilk, with no yeast and no proving. Three minutes from mixing to oven.
Ingredients
For 8 servings · tick what is ready
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How to make it
Heat the oven to 220 °C in advance. The bread has to go in immediately after mixing; it cannot wait.
Mix both flours, the bicarbonate and the salt in a bowl and stir well so the soda spreads evenly.
Pour in the buttermilk and mix with a knife or your hand only until it comes together. The dough is sticky and uneven, which is correct.
Turn it onto a floured tray, shape it into a round loaf and cut a deep cross almost to the base.
Scatter the oats over and bake fifteen minutes at 220 °C, then thirty at 190 °C.
A finished loaf sounds hollow when its base is tapped. Cool it on a rack for at least an hour: hot soda bread will not slice.
About this recipe
By UniTools · Source: UniTools — theunitools.com. Recipe content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jim Lukach · CC BY 2.0