And luckily, I was taught how to make this homemade brown soda bread with buttermilk by the owner of a sweet little pub in southwest Ireland. This recipe is as authentic as it gets and it couldn ...

Add 1 tablespoon demerara sugar and 100g mixed dried fruit to the rubbed-in mixture, then add the buttermilk and proceed with the recipe. Spotted soda bread: Follow the recipe for fruit soda bread ...

Place the flours, bicarbonate of soda ... bread does not keep well, so is best eaten on the day that it is baked – but if you have any left, it does make good toast. This recipe calls for ...

Cool on a wire rack. If you don't have buttermilk for the soda bread recipe, you can use half-and-half plain yoghurt mixed with milk. You can also use milk that has been soured by stirring in a ...

FOOD Ashford Castle’s Executive Head Pastry Chef shares her time-honed recipe for the perfect Irish brown soda bread ...

Stir together the flour, soda, salt in a large bowl ... You can see in this photo how the bread should look, and do make sure it is a deep golden brown to ensure that it has baked through.

Brown soda bread is an ancient Irish recipe, and every family has their own version. Mark Moriarty’s has treacle for a lovely colour, and extra flavour and texture from oatmeal and mixed seeds.

Lift the flour up with your fingers to distribute the salt and bread soda. Add the beaten egg (if using) to the buttermilk. Make a well in the centre and pour in all the liquid. With your fingers ...

Stir these well so that the bread soda in particular is well mixed into the flours. Measure the buttermilk into a measuring jug and add the egg and honey and whisk lightly with a fork to break the ...

Unlike a yeast bread, this quick bread doesn't make you wait for it to rise. Soda bread has four very basic components: flour, baking soda (hence the name), salt and buttermilk. Without yeast ...