A great traditional brown bread recipe from one of Ireland’s top food writers Máirín UíChomain.
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Ingredients
110g plain flour
350g wholemeal flour
300ml sour milk or buttermilk
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp bread soda
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
Grease a flat baking tray.
Sieve the flour, salt and bread soda in a bowl, then mix in the flour thoroughly.
Make a well in the centre of the flour, pour in the milk and mix from the centre out to make a soft dough.
Turn out on to a floured board and knead until smooth underneath. Turn the smooth side up and flatten to a round 5cm thick.
Place the dough on a baking tray and cut a cross n the top. Bake for 40 minutes or until the bread gives a hollow sound when the base it tipped. Cool on wire rack.
Note: one table spoon of ban, wheat germ or oatmeal may be added to the dry ingredients for extra roughage.