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Soda bread

This is rustic, home-made soda bread, an easy and quick bread recipe without the yeast and fermentation time. Mix all ingredients together in 5 minutes, then put it in the oven and it's done.
Servings 1 Loaf
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes

Equipment

  • 1 Mixing Bowl
  • 1 Spatula
  • 1 Oven
  • 1 Cast Iron Pan or Baking Tray
  • 1 Knife

Ingredients

  • 350 g Plain Flour
  • 150 g Wholewheat Flour
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1 tbsp Sugar
  • 200 ml Whole Milk
  • 200 ml Full Fat Yoghurt

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 230°C
  • In a mixing bowl add the plain flour, wholewheat flour, salt, baking soda & sugar, then mix it well, this is dry ingredients. Next, add milk into yoghurt and mix it. Then pour it into dry ingredients.
    Mix ingredients
  • Give all ingredients a good mix until there is no dry flour, but be careful not to overwork the dough.
    Mix ingredients
  • Take dough out of the bowl and put it on to a floured work surface. Bring it together and form into a round shape. This is rustic bread, so if the top of bread has some wrinkles it is ok. Transfer to the cast iron pan or baking tray with baking sheet.
    Roll the dough into a ball
  • Next flatten the dough slightly and dust a little flour on the dough, this will make it easier to score. Use a Knife to score a deep cross in the top of the dough, this is to bless the bread and to help it rise. Then go into each quarter of the dough and poke a hole to let the fairies out.
    Soda bread dough
  • Put it into oven, change the temperature to 210°C, bake for 35-40 minutes or until soda bread is golden on the outside and cooked thourgh.
    soda bread
  • Let it cool on a wire rack, then enjoy your lovely bread. Its best with butter!
    Soda bread

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Notes

How to check soda bread is cooked: Tap the base of bread if is sounds hollow that means it is cooked. 
Cost: 1
Course: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Snack
Cuisine: Irish
Keyword: baking, bread, brown bread, irish bread, irish soda bread, soda bread