Irish MNetters - over here please with your recipes for Soda Bread

[MmeLindt]

We were in Dublin recently and I tasted Soda Bread for the first time. It is truly delicious.

Does anyone have a really good recipe?

I made it yesterday. Used this recipe. Was super yummy and absolutely will be doing it lots cos it's so easy.

Oh, that looks easy. Thanks. Will give it a go. I don't think I can get wholemeal SR flour, do you think it would work with white SR?

I used what it said - got all ingredients from tesco. Think it's pretty difficult to mess up though so you should be fine. Wish there was some left...

The nearest Tesco is about 850 miles from here. Sorry, should have said, I am abroad.

Thanks. Will give it a whirl.

This recipe has a few more ingredients but got got straight from an 'oul oirish lady in Cork:

1lb plain white flour
1 tsp salt
1 dsp bread soda
1 dsp cream of tartar
5oz coarse brown plain flour
1 heaped tbsp oat bran
1 dsp brown sugar
1 tbsp sunflower oil OR 2 oz margarine
1 egg

mix 'em together gently and bake at 200-220C for around 40 minutes.

Told me to take out of oven and listen to see if it sings (can hear a sizzling noise). If "singing" pop back in for another 5 mins and listen again!

Tastes lovely and was seriously impressed with speed she did it - and then quickly make some sconezs with some leftover flour she had! 80 year olds rock!

LOL at the singing Soda Bread. Will have to try all the different recipes.

I know - maybe will give a rendition of "Under Pressure" out of nationalistic loyalty to the horrors that are Jedward (you may have avoided that being 850 miles away)

Buttermilk is the problem abroad - I could never find it even in London. So instead squeeze half a lemon into normal milk (I think it also helps activate the bicarb). I don't bother with the self raising but also add 2oz bran to the first recipe to make it that bit coarser. Eat hot with lashings of butter and jam, yum.

Btw White soda bread is even easier, just White flour, pinch salt, bicarb, buttermilk and raisins if you want to pretend it is cake.

Buttermilk is just double cream whisked until separated into butter and buttermilk

(only useful if you are a Stepford wife who churns own butter I suppose)

LadyG
I have British TV so was sadly not spared the torture of Jedward.

Hmm, I think we can get buttermilk, will check. There is a British shop nearby so I might try there.

Just chipping in with another recipe, from Nigel Slater this time - I love the way he talks about food and describes the prcesses of cooking so it's worth a read even if the recipe is similar to the others posted:

Nigel Slater - How I learned to cook bread

Classic Soda Loaf recipe is underneath main article.

Apples
Thank you for that link. I have not read any of his articles before. I love this 'You then knead it for 10 minutes, firmly but without any hatred.'

DH taps his like a drum to see if it is ready. He varies the flour but the basic ingredients are always the same, sometimes he puts sultanas in for fruit soda bread, which is lovely with bacon and egg.

I will ask him for his recipe when he comes back from the shed... it is very simple! (but I have never made it - why have a dog and bark yourself

1lb flour
pint of buttermilk
tsp baking soda
teaspoon of salt
.. I think!

My Gran always tapped hers, all my family make theirs' on a griddle.

Except me, I go to the bakers

Ooooh, sound ominous...have to ask

What's he doing in his shed (in the pitch dark)?

Hello MmeLindt BTW, DD will write soon .

Would you like me to send you some soda ?

Tsk! A whole recipe section on Mumsnet and you haven't searched it! Really Gals - do try harder:-

here

My aunt won't give me her recipe and it is the best I ever tasted. Can you believe that?

I don't eat soda as a breadIYSWIM, but fry it [healthy]

Hello Coco. DD has lost a tooth and is most excited about it. How is your DD?

Doodlez
Thank goodness you linked to your recipe (which I did not find when I searched recipes earlier for some reason). Imagine if I had angered the leprechauns

She's great thanks, I laughed at her writing to tell your DD to wrap up warm it might snow, when I'd just read your thread about it already being -30 .

That was really sweet of her.

Did I write that it was -30? That must have been a typo, it has not been as cold as that, unless we were in the mountains. Gosh, it was only a couple of weeks ago, I should be able to remember that far back.

LadyGooGoo the shed might be as big as my tiny house, it has lights, musical instruments, a motorbike and various other junk in it, but plenty of room for partying still.

.. and the above recipe has been confirmed by my dh.

Don't ask how long it takes to bake - dh says it speaks to you if it is not ready (it says put me back), like knocking on a wall, but like a drum if it is ready - he just dumps it on a floured baking tray - for about 45 mins I think.

Maybe it wasn't that cold, I have a tendency to exaggerate