Soda Bread

[threebikesmcginty]

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.

Don't try and out-aubergine me pal.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

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

You don't even need buttermilk. I add two tablespoons of lemon juice to 350ml of milk, leave it for 20 minutes and use as @threebikesmcginty outlines. Full fat milk works best BTW. You just need an acid to react with the bicarbonate to provide the lift.
For an extra special loaf add a tablespoon or two of black treacle to the flour mix.
Cutting the cross in the dough is important, it's not only for looks, it helps the dough to cook through.
I would say making soda bread is a piece of cake, but it's even easier than that.

 

[MossCommuter]

My top tips

Make any dish specifying aubergine with spuds

Do not make any dish specifying pesto (or pesh-toe)

 

[growingvegetables]

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

You don't need to ...
@Tail End Charlie's milk and lemon juice works, so does thinned yogurt (about 3 parts yogurt to 1 of milk - or even water)

 

[rualexander]

I make mine with plain yoghurt, no milk, wholemeal bread flour, some bicarbonate, and a pinch of salt.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Good alts, I'd seen the milk and lemon but as a first go I thought I wouldn't go off piste. Like the idea of natch yog.

 

[summerdays]

You can also use vinegar to turn the milk.

 

[LarryDuff]

Cook a few sausages and stick them in between your soda. Sausage soda - lovely.

 

[TheDoctor]

Could use baking powder, that's just bicarb and powdered tartaric acid.

 

[jefmcg]

If you have buttermilk, also make US style buttermilk pancakes with leftovers.

If course, then you need maple syrup. Use the leftover maple syrup to make...

 

[Flying Dodo]

I haven't made soda bread for years, but one thing I used to do was put lumps of cheddar into it before baking. Then when you take it out of the oven, and cut it open to then slather in butter, you had these lovely molten nuggets of cheese. Mmmmmm.........

 

[summerdays]

[QUOTE 4667974, member: 259"]My mother in law makes soda bread on a griddle - she's so hard core she doesn't even use an oven. I've tried doing it and it was like a brick![/QUOTE]
So does mine ! Also potato bread, drop scones and farls.

 

[velovoice]

As does my mum.... damn the Atkins Diet!

You're not kidding! I've been ketogenic 4 years and if there is one, just one, item of food that tempts me to throw it all out the window (and sod being really ill as a result), it's Irish soda bread.

I haven't made soda bread for years...

Thank God you've stopped. (See above.)

 

[jefmcg]

I've been ketogenic 4 years

Bloody hell.

Kudos to you. 4 years without (major) carbs? No, I couldn't. Respect.

(I've never bothered to do the research if low carb is healthy as ... no, just no)

 

[velovoice]

Bloody hell.

Kudos to you. 4 years without (major) carbs? No, I couldn't. Respect.

(I've never bothered to do the research if low carb is healthy as ... no, just no)

I'm carbohydrate intolerant (yes, that's a thing) so no choice really. Well, it is a choice: between feeling crap all the time and seriously ill (we're talking hospital ill) from time to time, and feeling pretty good most of the time and even bloody fantastic occasionally.
Sorry for the thread hijack. As you were!