NI Wheaten Bread

[Nial]

This is very quick to make, there's no faffing about letting things rise etc. It's also very

tasty warm with butter melted on it and goes well with most things.

 

For one medium sized loaf you just need 5 ingredients....

 

7 oz plain white flour

7 oz wholemeal flour (I normally use Hovis flour)

1-2 oz sugar (to taste)

1 large teaspoon baking soda

Butter milk. In Northern Ireland buttermilk is available as a milk like liquid, in Scotland and

I presume the rest of the UK you can get it in yougurt like 284ml cartons in Tescos etc. I use

just short of two of the cartons.

 

Stick oven on at 160 deg.

 

Put all the dry ingredients in a big bowl and mix.

 

Add the buttermilk mixing as you go. The consistency you're looking for is hard to describe,

you don't want it runny, but you don't want it too dry. Slightly drier than the consistency of cement

is about right.

 

Put the mix in a greased loaf baking tin and stick it in the oven.

 

Wait 90 odd minutes and it's done.

 

My Mum only cooks hers for an hour but I think that leaves it too moist in the middle, after

a couple of tries you'll get the hang of how you like it. It only takes 5 mins to get in the

oven and washed up, when you've a couple of bags of flour in you only need to get

the buttermilk every time and you're away.

 

I'm making some tomorrow, I'll add pictures if I remember.

 

[Edit] Changed flour from wheaten to wholemeal[/Edit]

 

Nial

Edited October 27, 2008 by Nial

[tweedledee]

tasty stuff mate,i use dto visit an elderly neighbour and her wheaten was to die for, i can smell it now

[Zapp]

Lovely stuff this, I used to eat loads of it while I was stationed in NI.

 

I liked it sliced thick, with plenty of butter and some nice blackcurrant jam

 

Yummy!

 

ZB

[davie mac]

ya love it toasted with butter on it im not much of a baker but im going to give that recipe a go this week.

[Nial]

ya love it toasted with butter on it im not much of a baker

 

The beauty of this is that there's not much 'baking' involved, there's no kneading /

leaving to rise etc.

 

Mix it all in the bowl, stick it in the over for 90 mins, job's done.

 

 

Nial.