Brown Soda Bread With Oats
Updated Aug. 16, 2022
- Total Time
- 1 hour
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Ingredients
- Soft butter for the bread pan
- 125grams (approximately 1 cup) whole-wheat flour
- 62grams (approximately ½ cup) unbleached all-purpose or bread flour
- 25grams (2 rounded tablespoons) steel-cut oats, either regular or quick-cooking
- 40grams (approximately ⅓ cup) rolled oats
- 8grams (approximately 2 teaspoons, tightly packed) brown sugar
- 3.5grams (½ teaspoon) salt
- 10grams (2 teaspoons) baking soda, sifted
- 290grams (approximately 1¼ cups) buttermilk
Nutritional analysis per serving (6 servings)
182 calories; 3 grams fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 1 gram monounsaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 34 grams carbohydrates; 3 grams dietary fiber; 4 grams sugars; 7 grams protein; 530 milligrams sodium
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8½ x 4½ x 2½-inch bread pan.
- Step 2
In a large bowl, mix together flours, steel-cut oats, rolled oats, brown sugar, salt and sifted baking soda. Mix well with your hands.
- Step 3
Make a well in the center of flour mixture. Pour in buttermilk. Working from the center of the bowl in concentric clockwise circles, with fingers outstretched, stir buttermilk into flour mixture. (You can use a rubber spatula instead if you don’t like getting dough on your hands.) This should take about a half a minute at most. Dough will be quite moist. Use a rubber spatula to scrape into bread pan and smooth out the dough to fill pan evenly ( the pan will be filled only about halfway.)
- Step 4
Place in the oven and bake 40 minutes, until dark brown and a tester inserted comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool on a rack.
- Advance preparation: This keeps for about 4 days and can be frozen.
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Made this as friends were coming over—prep was a flash and it slid right out of the pan. Served with tasty local cheeses and the bread became the main event of the meal. Everyone loved it. Not too sweet or soda-tasting for us! *only had quick-cook oats (sigh) so used those for the 65g of steel-cut/tolled oats and it worked just fine. *made ‘buttermilk’ with 280g whole milk and 10g vinegar.
This makes a delicious loaf, very much like the bread I had in Ireland. You do not need to use 2 teaspoons of baking soda. One teaspoon will be enough and you will not get that odd bitter taste from an excess of soda.
We are just back from Ireland and we loved the brown bread while we were there. This bread is excellent and very much like the best brown bread we had there. I followed the recipe exactly and think that the steel cut oats are essential for that toothsome texture that make it so delicious. And of course it needs some good Irish butter!
I make a 1.5x version of this for a slightly taller loaf. (Not increasing baking soda tho.) instead of wheat all-purpose flour, I use King Arthur Irish-style flour wheat OR, for best results yet, imported Odlums coursemeal flour (available via Amazon and probably other places) wheat. For the 1.5x recipe, one pint of buttermilk is perfect. Also had good results with plain Greek yogurt. Will try maple syrup for sweetener as suggested in another comment!
Try 1.5 tsp soda Try oat flour Try molasses
Belfast boy here. I've never felt the need to reduce the soda. The clue is in the name of the bread - it's supposed to have that slight tang. Granted it might not appeal to everyone, but the recipe ain't wrong.