Description
Soda Bread… The ultimate quick bread. A time-poor mum’s Sunday morning savior when she hasn’t got a loaf of sourdough on the go. In under an hour, this savory soda bread will save your bacon (pardon the pun!) and give you a delicious, yet totally easy to bake, loaf of bread for the Sunday table.
Ingredients
Scale
- 350g plain flour
- 1 tsp salt flakes
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3 tsp chopped chives
- 120g cheddar, coarsely grated
- 170g streaky bacon, cut into a rough 1cm sq dice.
- 300ml buttermilk
- 1 tbsp honey
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius.
- Combine all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Pop aside.
- In a frypan on a medium heat, fry off the bacon bits until browned and slighly crispy on the ends (about 5 minutes)
- Add the bacon to the bowl of dry ingredients. Add grated cheddar and chopped chives. Combine.
- In a small bowl add the honey to the buttermilk and give a good stir.
- Add the buttermilk mixture to the mixing bowl with other ingredients. Stir just to combine, but no more. The mixture should be quite wet. This is completely normal. Cover with a clean tea towel and rest the dough for 30 minutes.
- Form the dough into a rough ball and pop onto a piece of baking paper on a baking tray (or like I do, into a cast iron frypan). Using the back of a wet spoon, gently smooth over the surface to guide it into a round, bread dough. Score the top of the dough with a large X.
- Pop into the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes.
Notes
I like to rest my dough for 30 minutes, however, this is optional. I feel you get a better result by resting the gluten. However, I make it both with and without the resting step depending on how time-poor I am that day.