Irish Brown Bread (Whole Wheat Soda Bread)
Irish Brown Bread (Whole Wheat Soda Bread)

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, irish brown bread (whole wheat soda bread). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Irish Brown Bread (Whole Wheat Soda Bread) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Irish Brown Bread (Whole Wheat Soda Bread) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Traditional Irish Soda Bread has a particular look, but do you know what it is? The marking on top is a cross. It comes from blessing the bread before baking. For the whole wheat flour, I like to keep mine fresh in the freezer because I don't use it as often as white flour.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have irish brown bread (whole wheat soda bread) using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Irish Brown Bread (Whole Wheat Soda Bread):
  1. Take 175 grams Whole wheat flour
  2. Take 50 grams White flour
  3. Make ready 2 Tbsp Wheat bran (optional)
  4. Make ready 1 pinch Salt
  5. Prepare 1 tsp Baking soda
  6. Prepare 200 ml Buttermilk - OR - 100 ml milk + 100 g yogurt
  7. Make ready 1 tsp Caraway seeds (optional)

In a large bowl, whisk the whole wheat flour, baking soda, and sea salt. Add the butter and use your fingers to mix it into the flour by rubbing the pieces of butter into the flour until the I love Irish Soda bread and usually just make it with white flour. In trying to incorporate whole grain I tried this recipe. Seldom is the term "whole wheat" used.

Instructions to make Irish Brown Bread (Whole Wheat Soda Bread):
  1. Preheat oven to 400°F/200°C. In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients. Fluff it up a bit with your hands or whisk to add some air.
  2. Roughly mix in the buttermilk (or milk/yogurt mix) until the dough just comes together.
  3. Without kneading too much (kneading will make the dough dense), form a dome-shaped dough and place on a greased baking pan (you can use wax paper, etc. too).
  4. With a knife, cut a cross shape into the dough about 2/3 deep.
  5. Bake at 400°F/200°C for 10 minutes. Then lower temperature to 350°F/180°C and bake for another 15-20 minutes. Lastly, turn the bread upside-down and bake for 5 more minutes.
  6. Remove from oven and wrap in a tea towel or cloth to prevent the bread from becoming too hard. Let cool a bit and dig in!

In trying to incorporate whole grain I tried this recipe. Seldom is the term "whole wheat" used. Traditionally, brown bread refers to a dense, hearty, and nutty-tasting, whole wheat version of Irish soda bread. American whole wheat flour is ground far finer, than its Irish counterpart. It does not produce a distinctive, large-crumb, brown bread.

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