Irish brown bread

 

This is a traditional brown bread which I make regularly. It is great with a bowl of hot soup, or used in an open sandwich. It's also good for freezing.

Ingredients:

175g wholemeal flour

175g plain flour

30g bran

20g wheatgerm

20g pinhead oatmeal

20g rolled oats (plus extra for scattering on top)

20g brown sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 egg

500ml buttermilk

Method:

Preheat the oven to 400F. Sift plain flour and baking powder into a large bowl. Add in all other dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. In a seperate bowl whisk egg and buttermilk. Add the butter milk mixture to the dry ingredients. Stir to combine. Spoon the mixture into a lined 2 lb loaf tin. bake for 50-60 minutes until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Remove grease proof paper and place back in the tin up-side-down for a futher 5 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

I often add sesame and poppy seeds to this bread and top with sunflower seeds.