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

1. Mix all dry ingredients in a a large bowl and mix together.

2. In a separate bowl, beat the egg and buttermilk together with a whisk.

3. Stir the egg mixture into the flour, mix well and use your hands to bring the dough together.

4. Place the dough onto a lightly floured baking tray. Try to end up with a disk, roughly 6 to 7cm thick.

5. 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

6. Bool your loaf on a wire rack , and for the best taste, serve still slightly warm with soup or just some butter.