Soda bread
Soda bread is a quick bread for which sodium bicarbonate is used as a leavening agent instead of yeast or sourdough. The ingredients of traditional soda bread are flour, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk.
What you need:
375 g wholemeal flour
125 grams of flour
50 g pinhead oatmeal
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
500 ml buttermilk
1 egg
What you do:
Preheat the oven to 230°C/392°F
Mix all dry ingredients in a a large bowl and mix together.
In a separate bowl, beat the egg and buttermilk together with a whisk.
Stir the egg mixture into the flour, mix well and use your hands to bring the dough together.
Place the dough onto a lightly floured baking tray. Try to end up with a disk, roughly 6 to 7cm thick.
Score a cross into the top of the bread and bake in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes, lower the heat to 200°C/392°F
Bool your loaf on a wire rack , and for the best taste, serve still slightly warm with soup or just some butter.