The easiest bread you´ll ever make... and one of the tastiest... Sounds good eh?
It´s pretty much what Irish brown bread is.
You mix the dry ingredients. You add all the buttermilk. You mix as gently as possible so there are no dry patches (like folding whites into a soufflé). Put in a loaf tin. Throw it in the oven at 180ºC for 45m. Have it with a knob of butter... Ouch! Beautiful...
Because buttermilk is not as easy to find as one can think, just make your own good enough substitution: mix in 1 tbsp of vinegar (I use rice vinegar, which I thinl is the most appropriated for this bread flavour) to each 200ml of milk. Let it rest for 15m.
The ratio is also the easiest. 1 part of wet to one part of dry ingredients. Really, there´s no excuse for not having fresh brown soda bread in the house. Oh, and it´s very healthy, it uses wholemeal Wheat flour... (I haven´t tried with other non wheat flour, but can´t see why it wouldn´t work - let me know!)
150g white flour
250g wholemeal flour
2 tsp sodium bicarbonate
2 tsp salt
400ml buttermilk
