Irish Soda Bread

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Ingredients

  • 1 C. buttermilk
  • 7/8 C. of white flour (4 oz. if you have a scale)
  • 7/8 C. of whole wheat flour (4 oz. if you have a scale) 1/4 C. sweetened, dried cranberries
  • 1/4 C. coarsely chopped walnuts
  • 1 large handful of wheat bran
  • 1 large handful of quick oats
  • 1 t. sugar
  • 1 t. salt
  • 1 t. baking soda

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. 2. Measure all the dry ingredients into a medium mixing bowl and mix well with your hands by lifting the ingredients together to add air to the mixture. 3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the buttermilk. Gently mix the dry ingredients into the buttermilk by scooping under the dry ingredients and lifting it into the buttermilk. The dough will be very sticky and moist. Do not over mix!! 4. Sprinkle a little whole wheat flour onto a baking sheet and gather the wet dough into a ball and flatten it into a two inch thick circle and sprinkle with a little oats. 5. Place on the middle rack of the oven and bake for about 35 minutes and it sounds
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