Ballyvolane House Soda Bread (Brown & White)
Ballyvolane House Brown Soda Bread
(Makes 2 bread loaves)
- Preheat the oven to 200˚c
- grease bread tins with butter spray
Place a large bowl/basin onto weighing scales, and add the following ingredients:
- 1.5 lbs of course wholemeal flour
- add one handful of wheat bran
- add two handfuls of wheat germ
- add pinhead oatmeal up to 21/4 lbs on scales
- add 2 tsp salt
- add 2 tsp of sieved bread soda (bicarb)
- mix dry ingredients well
- add 1 litre of buttermilk & stir until the buttermilk is mixed through all the dry ingredients
- divide into 2 greased bread tins & sprinkle with pinhead oatmeal
- bake for 1 hour on high shelf
Ballyvolane House White Soda Bread
(Makes 1 bread loaf)
- 450 g (1lb) plain flour
- 1 level tsp salt
- 1 level tsp bread soda (bicarb)
- 450ml (14 fl oz) buttermilk
Preheat oven to 250 degrees centigrade/ 475 f/ gas 9
Sieve the dry ingredients. Make a well in the centre. Pour in all of the milk at once. Using 1 hand, with your fingers stiff and outstretched like a claw, stir in a full circular movement from the centre to the outside of the bowl in ever-increasing circles. The dough should be softish not too we and sticky. When it all comes together, turn it out onto a well-floured work surface. Wash and dry your hands.
Tidy up and flip over gently. Pat the dough into a round about 1.5 inches deep. Cut a deep cross on the loaf and prick in the four corners to let the fairies out!
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes, then turn down to 22 degree c/400 degrees f/ gas 6 for 30 mins or until cooked. If you are in doubt, tap the bottom of the bread; when it is cooked it will sound hollow. Cool on a wire rack.
Note: Soda breads are best eaten on the day they are made but are still good for a day or so more.
