Soda Bread

Because the house smells great with fresh baking and its always nice to lick the spoon of your creation and share a slice of cake.

Its nice to have some home baking in the house for the week, to feed hungry mouths when they come home from school, having tea and cake with fellow mummies over a play date, or 4 o'clock snacks between lunch and dinner wouldn't be the same without a cookie or two.  

What ever the reason its good to get into the kitchen especially with little ones to give them the practical skills in measuring, mixing and taste as well as satisfaction that they have created and cooked something themselves.

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Soda Bread is one of my favorite breads to eat it has a lovely crumberly texture and great smothered in butter. i have never known how to make it and thought it maybe difficult.  I have enjoyed watching Paul Hollywood on t.v recently with his making bread series and one of the episodes was about soda bread where he said that is was one of the easiest breads to make so easy his 11 year old boy made it.  As Sophie is a rather good little cook at 3 years old we thought we would give it a go.

We opted for a half wholemeal and white flour rather than all white flour mix just to give it goodness and taste.  This really is so simple just 4 ingredients.

500g of flour we used 250g white flour 250g wholemeal
1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp of salt although we thought we might try a little more next time
400ml of buttermilk

Once all the dry ingredients are mixed add the buttermilk and make into a dough then lightly need, not to much and shape into a ball and add a cross to the top of the dough ready for cooking.  pop it in the oven at 200 and the book says 30 mins but i think we needed 40 mins as we found the bread a bit uncooked in the middle.

The bread was lovely and will now make a regular appearance in our kitchen especially as it was so easy to do with no proving and only taking 10 mins to make there's no reason not to make it.