This Guinness Bread is a soda bread that doesn’t need any yeast. The rise of the bread is just down to the baking soda and buttermilk.
PrintGuinness Bread
- Author: Fallow
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients
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Guinness Bread
- 250g plain white flour
- 250g plain wholemeal flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 200ml buttermilk
- 200ml guinness
- 3tbsp Muscavado
- 1tbsp treacle
- A handful rolled oats
Instructions
- Mix together muscavado, treacle, Guinness and buttermilk and leave to dissolve.
- Preheat the oven to 180°c.
- Line the tin with baking paper, oil and throw in the rolled oats to shake around and tip out, keeping the excess for the top of the loaf.
- Place the dry ingredients in a large a bowl, make a well in the centre and stir in the buttermilk mixture.
- Use a spatula to ensure all the flour is well incorporated then tip into the loaf tine, pressing into the corners.
- Level the top, sprinkle on the oats and make a long cut down the middle.
- Into the oven for about an hour (check after 45 mins) until a skewer comes out clean and the loaf sounds hollow when tapped on the underside.
Notes
- 8″ x 4” (20cm x 10cm) loaf tin