Irish Oatmeal Bread
By: Anonymous
Published: Saturday, December 26, 2009 - 11:04pm

Ingredients




1 pound Loaf:
8 ounces Stone-Ground Whole Meal Flour (225Gr)
3 ounces Coarse Oatmeal (75Gr)
1 teaspoon Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Egg (Size 2)
1/2 pint Buttermilk (275Ml)

Preparation

1 You'll need a 1 lb loaf tin, well greased and lightly dusted with flour. 2 Preheat the oven to gas mark 5, 375F, 190C 3 All you do is place the flour, oatmeal, sugar, salt and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl and mix them well together. Then whisk the egg into the buttermilk and add that to the dry ingredients, mixing everything together thoroughly. 4 The mixture will remain quite soft, so just place it in the tin and bake it on the middle shelf of the oven for 50-60 minutes, or until the loaf sods hollow when you tap it on the underneath. 5 Leave it on a wire rack to cool, and serve very fresh in crusty slices, spread with Irish butter. 6 This bread is also lovely fresh from the oven on a cold winter weekend and served for tea with butter and homemade jam.