Chef's Delight: Guinness Brown Soda Bread
Recipe by Rosie Morgan
Pink Haired Pastry Chef
A WORD FROM THE CHEF
This Guinness brown soda bread recipe is an Irish classic. Brown soda bread is a non yeasted bread that gets its rise from the reaction between baking soda and the acidity of the buttermilk and doesn’t require any time to ferment or rise. It has a signature crunchy crust and a soft, almost cake like crumb. This Guinness brown soda bread is enriched further with brown sugar, oats and Guinness for extra flavour.
INGREDIENTS
250gr wholemeal flour
60gr plain flour
1tsp baking soda (5gr)
1tsp salt (5gr)
30gr dark brown sugar
60gr oats plus small handful for decoration
150gr Guinness or Stout
200gr buttermilk
30gr plain vegetable oil
METHOD
Preheat oven to 180°c (360°c) or 170°c(340°f).
Add the flours, baking soda, salt, brown sugar and oats to a large mixing bowl. Whisk together to break up any lumps.
In a jug, add the oil, buttermilk and stout and whisk together.
Pour into the mixing bowl and using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, mix together until no dry bits remain.
Transfer into a greased and lined loaf tin and smooth the top evenly.
Sprinkle over a small handful of oats.
Dip or coat your metal spatula/burger flipper/knife into oil and make a slice down through the centre of the bread longways. See pictures above for reference.
Place into the preheated oven and bake for 50-60 minutes until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean and when you remove the bread from the tin, the bottom of it is dry and has some small air holes in it.
ABOUT THE CHEF
Rosie is an Irish-based chef, award winning food photographer who specialises in food, drink and product photography, and is the owner of Pink Haired Pastry Chef.
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