February 28, 2015
Soda Bread!
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Simple yet delicious soda bread that can be ready and edible in under 1 hour!
Bread
Baking bread from scratch can sometimes be daunting, or down right petrifying to some people – but this recipe makes you realise truly how easy some bread recipes can be!
I have already put up recipes for honey & oat bread, and granary bread but I thought that something like soda bread where there is NO KNEADING and there is NO PROVING would make some people happy AND it only has 6 ingredients!
Soda bread
When I first started baking many many years ago, I never even thought to bake my own bread – I would always stick to the sweet stuff! But after going to cookery school and baking so many different types of bread I lost count, and realising how easy it can be if you stick to it, be patient and follow a recipe, I can’t stop baking bread at home!
This recipe I find creates a delicious flavour, and is so unbelievably easy that I have questioned why there isn’t freshly baked bread in my house every day. It is so simple with only 6 ingredients needed and those 6 ingredients are items that are readily available at supermarkets everyday, making it the perfect quick and simple bread recipe!
Savoury baking
It is no secret that I love savoury baking! I love the flavours, I love experimenting and it all tastes so delicious! I have made pizza rolls, cheese scones, ham leek and mushroom quiche and many more – there is a savoury recipe for everyone on my blog!
Serve
This recipe for soda bread is a perfect all round crowd pleaser. You can use it for a delicious deli style sandwich, served buffet style with lots of meat and cheese or it tastes delicious as toast with some butter and jam. When I made the particular loaf in my photos, I slathered a slice with butter and sprinkled some sea salt on the top – HEAVEN! The bread was still slightly warm too so its a wonder how I didn’t eat the whole loaf! Enjoy!
Soda Bread!
Ingredients
- 500 g plain flour
- 100 g porridge oats
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tbsp honey
- 500 ml buttermilk or 490ml milk and 2 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/190C Fan/400F and line a baking tray with parchment paper, dust lightly with flour.
- Sift the plain flour into a large bowl and put in the salt, porridge oats and bicarbonate of soda in too, mix together briefly with your hands
- Pour in the buttermilk and the honey into the flour mixture and combine with a spatula or fork until a dough forms - it shouldn't take too long
- Bring the final bits together with your hands as lightly as possible until it forms a dough (don't be too harsh on it!)
- Keep on mixing and once the dough is formed, form it into a ball shape and put it on the baking tray
- Slash the top of the dough quite deeply into a cross and bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes (Can take up to 40 minutes depending on the oven) until the bottom of the bread sounds hollow when tapped and the bread is nicely brown all over
- ENJOY!
Notes
- This bread is best served and eaten on the same day of baking, but it will last a couple of days, it might just need refreshing in the oven if it goes a bit hard!
- You can try different flavoured flours such as using wholemeal flour for example, but I always have plain flour in the cupboard, so it's my go-to recipe.
- It serves beautifully with a buffet lunch style with meats and cheese, or a Sunday Lunch, or even sweet stuff such as morning toast and jam (my Dad's favourite)!
ENJOY!
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Hi Jane- thank you for this recipie.Have made it twice now had a really lovely crunchy top but both have been a bit sticky inside.Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong please.Still tastes good though.The second time I cooked it for longer .
Try and bake on a lower temp for longer to bake the inside and then whack the temp up at the end for a crunchy outside x
I’ve only got 300ml pot of buttermilk, should I use that plus extra of plain milk or forget my pot and use your milk/lemon juice quantity?? Thank you 😊
Hiya! I would still use the pot and make up the rest – just so you don’t waste what you have bought! Hope this helps! x
I’d like to make this with wholemeal flour. Is it just an even swap for the plain flour? Thanks!
Hiya! Yes this should be fine, enjoy! x
Can I leave the porridge oats out as I haven’t got any?
Hiya! You would have to add more flour if you were to do this, otherwise the dough may be far too sticky! Hope this helps! x
Have you tried this with gf flour?
& I love that you put oats in, they are such a yummy addition to soda bread!!
Hiya! I personally have not tried this- however it is definitely worth a go! Let me know how it goes! x
I can totally see it as a as the perfect loaf for morning toast and jam. Your dad has awesome tastes! Thanks for this delicious soda bread recipe, Jane!
Just made this, cooked in the right amount of time however mine didn’t colour much not sure why
How strange! It may be your oven is not as hot as you think it is or was on the wrong setting? x
Hi love this just wondering can you use soda bread flour? Thank you x
Hiya! It is definitely worth a go yes! Hope this helps! x
I love this recipe! I have just started calorie counting though and noticed this recipe doesn’t have the nutritional guide like some of the others. Do you know how many calories are in a slice roughly? Thanks!
Unfortunately, my older posts don’t have the information as there is no recipe card yet, sorry!
Hiya Jane, just wondering would that be a level teaspoon of salt please? Also would it be standard table salt or I’m wondering if you could use reduced salt/sodium? Thanks
I use sea salt flakes, not table salt personally because it hasn’t much flavour and isn’t very nice – but I’m sure you could use reduced stuff, or use a little less!
Ok, actually. I had to add more flour as it was impossible to turn into a loaf. I’m going to try again next week possibly reducing the amount of buttermilk , which I made with milk and lemon as we can’t get it here, Lovely with homemade strawberry jam which I made at the weekend
Ahh maybe it had more liquid in if homemade, im unsure. But I hope the next time works well!
Just made. Was your dough very sticky. I’m just waiting for the top to cook through as it’s still quite doughy?
How did it turn out?
I would love to try this with almond milk as a dairy free alternative as my daughter is dairy intollerent! Looks delish!