Homemade Soda Bread
How to make soda bread (and enhance it with grilled bacon!).
I just had this for lunch, it was unbelievable! Fresh bread from the oven, still steaming and some slices of grilled bacon on top served with a mug of tea. Amazing.
Ingredients:
- 300 grammes of spelt flour
- 250ml cultured buttermilk
- 10 grammes baking powder
- 1/3 teaspoon of salt
Preparation method:
- Preheat the oven to 180 Degrees Celsius and pop in a baking tray or oven proof dish
- In a mixing bowl or large, clean pan, add the flour, salt and baking powder
- Pour in the buttermilk and mix with a spoon or one of your clean hands (leave the other hand clean for twitter, phone calls and putting this in the oven)
- Make sure all the ingredients are mixed, you should now have a sticky dough. Don’t over-knead, just mix and combine to a dough
- Take the tray or dish out of the oven, liberally sprinkle a light coating of flour on the base, and place the dough in a long, but fat sausage shape
- Make some “cuts” along the length – but don’t actually slice the dough! Then sprinkle with flour
- Place in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown
- To test the bread is cooked, put a knife into the bread, it should come out more or less clean, and not covered in dough! (that’s the plan anyway)
Now the oven is free, turn on the grill setting, put the kettle on and get some bacon. If you’re lucky, you’ve got a pepper grinder and some Soy Sauce to season the bacon with. Put it in the oven on some foil at the highest setting and cook to your liking.
Then slice the bread, add the bacon, sip the tea and eat the food. Repeat.