Irish Brown Bread

Name: Irish Brown Bread
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 2 cups wholemeal flour; 1 cup plain flour; 1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 1 tsp salt; 1 tbsp caster sugar; 1 1/2 cups buttermilk; 2 tbsp treacle or molasses; 1 tbsp vegetable oil

A quick, dense Irish brown bread made with wholemeal flour and buttermilk. Stirring the wet and dry ingredients together just until combined, without overmixing, keeps this bread's texture tender rather than turning it tough and gummy.

Total time

65 min

Prep

10 min

Cook

55 min

Difficulty

easy

Cuisine

Irish

vegetarianvegan

Ingredients

2 cupswholemeal flour

1 cupplain flour

1 1/2 tspbicarbonate of soda

1 tspsalt

1 tbspcaster sugar

1 1/2 cupsbuttermilk

2 tbsptreacle or molasses

1 tbspvegetable oil

Instructions

Mix both flours, bicarb, salt and sugar.

Mix buttermilk, treacle and oil together.

Make a well in dry ingredients. Pour in wet.

Stir until just combined — do not overmix.

Tip into a greased loaf tin. Bake at 190°C for 50-55 minutes.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

192

Protein

6.2g

Fat

4.5g

Carbs

31.3g

Fiber

0.8g

Sodium

1077mg

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