Soda Bread

[threebikesmcginty]

just made a loaf of soda bread; plain and whole meal flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk. Mix it up, chuck it on a baking tray and shove it in the oven for half an hour. It's feckin lovely, says eat on the same day, I've already had half of it so I'm not sure it'll even make it to lunchtime.

 

[Hill Wimp]

just made a loaf; plain and whole meal flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk. Mix it up, chuck it on a baking tray and shove it in the oven for half an hour. It's feckin lovely, says eat on the same day, I've already had half of it so I'm not sure it'll even make it to lunchtime.

Is it of the equivalent standard as that sold by Source at St Pancras ?

 

[Aperitif]

That'll be bicarboneaten then! Do you have to turn the oven on, or is there an exothermic dimension to this repast, threeslicesmcginty?

 

[Aperitif]

Is it of the equivalent standard as that sold by Source at St Pancras ?

I think threecondimentsmcginty's might have been with sauce at Hook Norton.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sourced stuff is highly recommended but not as good as mine. Less than 40 minutes from ingredients to loaf.

Yumtus.

 

[Hill Wimp]

We had some of their soda bread last week and it was very good.

What recipe did you use?

 

[jefmcg]

Soda bread is better the fresher it is, so homemade is almost always going to beat shop bought.

 

[Katherine]

Recipe please @threebikesmcginty

 

[Deafie]

I wanna make some too. I found this http://www.sodabread.info/menu/ while waiting for TBM

 

[Crackle]

You know you can buy decent soda bread in the shops. It's not even rationed.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Recipe please @threebikesmcginty

OK, I based mine around the quantity of buttermilk I had, so it was: 300ml buttermilk, 3/4 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp bicarb of soda, 190g plain flour, 190g wholemeal (I only had flour with malted grains and stuff in so I sieved it, next time I'll leave them in I think). Mix the dry stuff and add half the buttermilk and mix again by hand or with flat knife, stick the rest of the buttermilk in slowly until you have a sticky ball of the dough, doesn't need too much handling. slap it on a baking tray, I used baking paper, it'll need a bit of oil for a non-stick. Put ball of dough on tray, push down gently, slice a deep cross with a sharp knife nearly all the way through and put it straight into a preheated 200c oven for 30 minutes. Don't hang about because it all starts working straight away. Tap for hollow sound and it's done, stick it on a wire rack, and as soon as you can, slice and chuck loads of butter on it and dog it down.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

You know you can buy decent soda bread in the shops. It's not even rationed.

Bog off, you're the sort who buys pesto and stuff too.

 

[summerdays]

You can't get decent wholemeal flour in this country, I normally bring back a bag or two...

 

[Katherine]

Right, buttermilk is now on the shopping list. You make it sound so easy. We'll see.

 

[Crackle]

Bog off, you're the sort who buys pesto and stuff too.

Complicated me: I buy it and I make it. I make soda bread too. I bet I even had aubergines before you. Just the once mind.