Description
This Irish Brown bread recipe has me thinking about blistery coastal days perched by a fire, a pot of seafood chowder, & brown bread smothered with butter.
Ingredients
- 250g plain flour
- 200g coarse wholemeal flour
- 2 tsp sea salt flakes
- 1 tsp bicarbonate soda
- 1 tbsp runny honey
- 400ml buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celcius. Grease a loaf pan and pop aside.
- In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients. Using a whisk, give them a god mix to break up any lumps and aerate the ingredients.
- In a measuring cup / jug, combine the buttermilk and honey. Using a fork, give it a quick mix.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients to the bowl. Using a wooden spoon or spatula, mix all the ingredients together until they are just combined, but no more. It should be a wet and sticky dough, unlike a tradtional bread dough.
- Place the dough into the greased loaf pan. Using a spoon dunked in water, smooth out the top of the loaf. With a sharp knife, make a cut on the top of the dough down the center of the loaf.
- Pop the loaf into the preheated oven and bake for 35 minutes or until cooked through and golden on top.
- Remove the dough from the loaf pan and turn out onto a wire rack to let the bread cool. You can tell when a loaf of fresh bread is cooked when you tap on the base and get a hollow sound.
Notes
I don’t line my bread tins for bread making. If you have a good quality, non-stick loaf pan I have never found that I need to line them with parchment paper when making bread loaves.
If you would prefer a freeform loaf as opposed to a bread tin-shaped loaf, here’s how. Firstly, you need to reduce the amount of liquid ingredients as this recipe is meant for a bread tin. Use 360ml of buttermilk instead of 400ml. Check out this traditional Irish soda bread recipe on how to make a freeform loaf. Follow from step 4, to mix your dough and then turn it onto a floured surface, shaping, scoring, and then popping it in a Dutch oven and baking.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 239
- Sugar: 4.9 g
- Sodium: 794.3 mg
- Fat: 2.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 46.5 g
- Protein: 8.2 g
- Cholesterol: 5.7 mg