- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Serving: 4 - 8 Persons
Nutrition facts (per portion)
- Calories: 405
- Carbohydrate Content: 79g
- Fat Content: 5g
- Fiber Content: 5g
- Protein Content: 10g
- Saturated Fat Content: 2g
- Sodium Content: 0.6g
- Sugar Content: 41g
Fruit & spice soda bread Recipe
Fruit & spice soda bread is a Wholemeal bread recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 35 mins; recipe has porridge oat, butter and plain flour.
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
Instructions
- 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.