Irish Brown Bread (Soda Bread)

Total time: 60 minutes
     This is so easy, I make it often, especially in winter, to go with soup or just to have with a cup of tea on a cold wintry afternoon.

 Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour, 180gr, 6.3oz
• 1/2 cup white flour, 62gr, 2.2oz
• 2 heaping tbs oatmeal, 20gr, .7oz
• 2 heaping tbs bran flakes, 20gr, .7oz
• 2 tbs butter, 28.4gr, 1oz
• 1 tsp sugar, 4.2gr, .15oz
• 1 heaping tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt, 3gr, .1oz
• 1 cup plain yogurt, 240gr, 8.5oz
• 1 cup milk,   measurements aren't precise, just equal 2 cups, 240gr, 8.5oz

 Instructions:

• Preheat the oven to 400F (200C). 
• I use an 8.5"  (22cm) round baking pan with 2" (5cm) sides for this.  Butter the pan, then 'flour' it: put about 1 tbs flour in the pan and tilt the pan so that the flour covers all of the buttered area.  Any excess just tip into the sink.
• Put all dry ingredients into a deep bowl. 
• Add the butter and cut in with a pastry cutter, fork or 2 knives.  You want it to end up looking like small pebbles. 
• Stir the yogurt and milk together, then stir the mixture into the flour/butter and mix well. 
• Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 45 minutes. 
• Remove from oven and tip out of pan on to a wire rack and allow to cool for at least 5 minutes.  Slice and serve or allow to cool completely. 

Note: I normally cut the loaf in half; we eat half and freeze half for later in the week. It keeps well for 3 days without freezing. 

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 12            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:  1480 / 123 Total Carbohydrates:  252 / 21           Dietary Fiber: 29 / 2.4 Total Fat:  42 / 3.5          Saturated Fat: 24 / 2 Cholesterol:  115 / 9.5 Protein:  53 / 4.5 Calcium:  700 / 58.3 Sodium:   1705 / 142

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

Note: We normally get 12 servings out of a loaf. I have also given the info for the entire loaf.

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/