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Easy Irish Soda Bread

This lovely light, moist loaf tastes like it’s the real thing made with yeast, when in fact it’s a five-minute throw-together.

Annabel Langbein Easy Irish Soda Bread Recipe
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Easy Irish Soda Bread
1½ cups each wholemeal flour and high-grade white flour 1 tsp each salt and baking soda, sifted 2 cups buttermilk

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Prep time:
5 mins
Cook time:
45 mins
Makes:
1 large loaf
  • 1½ cups each wholemeal flour and high-grade white flour
  • 1 tsp each salt and baking soda, sifted
  • 2 cups buttermilk

Preheat oven to 180°C fanbake and line an oven tray with baking paper.

Mix flours, salt and baking soda in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre and add buttermilk. Mix to form a sticky, soft dough. Using well-floured hands, shape the dough into a rough ball about 18cm in diameter on the prepared oven tray. Use a sharp knife dipped in hot water or oiled to cut a large cross in the top of the loaf. Bake until the loaf is golden and sounds hollow when tapped (40-45 minutes). If not eating at once, wrap in a clean teatowel and use within a day or serve toasted.

TIPS

If you don't have buttermilk you can make it very easily using ordinary milk – just add about a tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar for every cup of milk. Allow to stand for 10 minutes before using. 

This is delicious for a picnic. Try it topped with smoked salmon, capers, red onion and lemon slices or toast it for breakfast and serve with apricot jam or with lashings of butter, Vegemite and poached eggs.

Sometimes I like to add a cup of sunflower seeds and/or a ½ cup soaked and well-drained kibbled wheat. You can also add a cup of grated carrot or beetroot into the mixture when you add the buttermilk.

Measure the baking soda onto the palm of your hand then press with the back of the measuring spoon to remove any lumps.

 

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8 comments

I want to make this bread, however I don’t want it to be wet like the comments. Can Annabel let us know if the liquid is the correct measurement please.
Snora October 05, 2020
Mine was similar to Drea's. Very wet and no way could I shape or cut a cross in it.
KaBoom April 26, 2020
Annabel, I've tried this recipe twice now from both online and one of your cookbooks I have. Are you sure the buttermilk measure is correct, as this comes out the texture of porridge, by no means a "firm ball"
Drea April 15, 2020
I made this bread and it was so wet I had to add more flour. Why would it have been so wet.in followed the recipe .
Justinev August 06, 2016
Love your show! Great ideas for healthy meals.
puanani March 27, 2016
Tried this bread recipe and loved it I am going to try it with sun flower seeds
sue.mak November 13, 2015
What`s a vegan alternative for the buttermilk?
wizard-sexx October 28, 2015
You can also add some roasted garlic or packet of onion soup
IngridMaxwell October 28, 2015
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