Wholemeal bread recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 35 mins; recipe has porridge oat, butter, plain flour, wholemeal flour, caster sugar, bicarbonate of soda, mixed spice, raisin, sultana, date, mixed peel, buttermilk and demerara sugar.
Fruit & spice soda bread
Course: Wholemeal bread
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
30 mins
Ingredients
- Butter: 25g butter, diced
- Caster Sugar: 100g caster sugar
- Plain Flour: 200g plain flour
- Bicarbonate Of Soda: 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Sultana: 50g sultana
- Raisin: 50g raisin
- Porridge Oat: 100g rolled porridge oat
- Buttermilk: 450ml buttermilk
- Wholemeal Flour: 200g plain wholemeal flour, plus extra for dusting
- Mixed Spice: 1 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Date: 50g stoned date, finely chopped
- Demerara Sugar: 3-4 tbsp demerara sugar
- Mixed Peel: 3 tbsp mixed peel
Directions
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Whizz the porridge oats and butter together in a food processor, or rub the butter into the oats with your fingertips in a big bowl. Stir in the flours, caster sugar, bicarb, mixed spice, 1 tsp salt, the raisins, sultanas, dates and mixed peel.
- Pour over the buttermilk and quickly stir in with a round-bladed knife. Tip out onto a flour-dusted surface and gently bring together into a ball with your hands. Transfer to a flour-dusted baking sheet and scatter over the demerara sugar, pressing it into the top. Use a sharp, flour-dusted knife to cut a big cross in the top and bake for 30-35 mins until crusty on the outside. Eat warm or cold, thickly sliced, with butter.
