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hearty Irish brown bread recipe

Hearty Irish Brown Bread

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Servings 10
Calories 200 kcal

Equipment

  • Kitchen Aid Counter Top Mixer
  • Large Loaf Pan
  • Parchment paper

Ingredients
  

  • 4 cups Odlums Course Wholewheat Flour
  • 1 cup Rolled Oats / Regular Oatmeal (not quick oats)
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 tsp Baking Soda
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 2 cups Buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 2 tblspn Butter (salted or unsalted is fine)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375°F/191°C, spray or butter a 9-inch round cast iron or pie dish or large bread loaf pan 9 inches or larger. Drop a tsp of regular flour in the pan and shake it around to make sure the entire pan is coated with flour.
    Alternatively, cut a pice of parchment paper to fit the pan so you can lift the bread right out of the pan with the parchment paper.
  • In a large mixing bowl, add dry ingredients, whole wheat flour, oats, sugar, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
  • Cut in the butter and blend into the flour. If using the mixer, turn the spreed on low so as not to have the ingredients shoot out of the bowl.
  • In another small bowl, whisk the eggs and the buttermilk together.
  • Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients. Stir just to combine the ingredients. Do not over mix.
  • Scoop the dough out of the bowl into the prepared pan.
    Slice a cross into the bread.
  • You can sprinkle some oats on top of the dough or natural turbinado sugar of you want.
  • Bake for 45 minutes.
    Check to see if the bread is done by placing a butter knife into the center of the loaf. If it comes out clean, your bread is done.
    Let it cool for about 10 minutes on a wire rack in the pan.
    Then remove from the loaf pan and let the bread cool completely for at least ½ hour before slicing.

Notes

Please use Odlums Irish flour. American flour is too fine to get the right texture. 
It is so much easier with a counter top mixer like the kitchen aid, but this can be mixed using a large wooden spoon also (like my mom used to do). At the end, you may have to use your hands to get the dough fully mixed.
We never rolled the dough out on the counter. The dough is too sticky to do that.
If you use a 9 inch loaf pan, there is enough dough left to make 2-3 brown bread cupcakes  or 1 tiny loaf pan (3x5).
Keyword Irish Brown Bread