Irish Brown Bread

Irish Brown Bread

 

Introducing….IRISH BROWN BREAD!  My excitement over this seemingly simply breakfast staple comes from the fact that my daydreaming about brown bread sparked the idea for this project, and therefore I had to do my best to get it right.  As with any recipe, there are a lot of versions out there, but I had in my mind a variation that was a bit cake-y, a bit sweet, a bit nutty, but in no way dessert-y. That’s a lot to ask from a slice of bread.

brown bread

I adapted my final version from Imen.  I tweaked it a bit by adding a bit more honey and a little bit of wheat germ. The result was addictive, and after sitting on the couch almost all of Sunday, Tomato and I looked up to realize that almost the whole loaf was gone. In less than one day.  Yeah.  It’s that good.

 irish brown bread

 

We ate it fresh from the oven with a little bit of butter and jam. A little bit about me- I love fancy jam. I usually end up bringing some back from wherever I go on vacation and my friends have even started bringing jam back for me from wherever their travels take them. As a result, my pantry is FULL of jam. 

Not necessarily a bad problem to have, I say!

Irish brown bread

 

 

Irish Brown Bread

October 14, 2012
: 8
: 15 min
: 45 min
: Easy

Easy and classic Irish Brown bread

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Ingredients
  • 1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup wheat germ or old fashioned oats, plus more for the top of the loaf
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 TB butter, at room temp
  • 1 3/4 cup buttermilk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 TB honey
Directions
  • Step 1 Preheat oven to 400F.
  • Step 2 Sift the plain flour, baking soda and salt into a mixing bowl. Mix in wholemeal flour and wheat germ.
  • Step 3 Cut in the butter until the mixture becomes crumbly.
  • Step 4 Whisk egg with buttermilk and honey.
  • Step 5 Make a hole in the center and add the liquid. Mix together.
  • Step 6 Pour into a greased loaf tin and sprinkle wheat germ on top.
  • Step 7 Bake for 40-45 minutes. Eat!

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