Dill Soda Bread
By: delicieux
Published: Monday, May 17, 2010 - 11:01pm

Ingredients




2 cups of plain flour
2 cups of self raising flour
60 grams (4 tablespoons) of butter, cubed
2 teaspoons of bicarb soda (baking soda)
2 1/4 cups of buttermilk
1/3 cup chopped Dill
1 teaspoon of salt

Preparation

1 Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. 2 Sift the flours, salt and bicarb soda into a large bowl. 3 Add the butter and rub into the flour mixture. 4 Add the buttermilk and dill and mix to form a dough. 5 Cover a section your kitchen bench with glad wrap (I do this to make cleaning up easier) that will provide enough room to knead the dough.  Dust with flour. 6 Turn out the dough onto the floured surface and knead to form a ball shape. 7 Cover a baking tray with baking paper and place the ball into the middle of the tray and score the middle of the ball with a knife to form a cross. 8 Bake for 40 to 45 minutes.

About


Soda Bread is an Irish style of bread, made with bicarbonate of soda as the raising agent – hence the name. Instead of plain bread, I added some chopped dill, which seems to be my favourite herb of the moment.