Spelt Soda Bread, easiest & speediest recipe EVER!!

It's been a while since I have blogged, but I really want to share this wonderful recipe with you.  Actually it seems so quick and easy, it hardly even seems like a recipe! 

If you like your bread light and airy then perhaps this is not one for you, this is for those who like things rustic and nutty.  It has quite a closed, cake-like texture.  


When I used to work over in Ireland I always had soda bread and jam for breakfast, for me it seems easy to digest, is filling and satisfying too.  I've had a love hate relationship with bread over the years, sometimes cutting it completely out of my diet, but then missing the pleasure of a really tasty piece of toast.  So I have experimented with many types of bread and even used a bread maker every day for years. But now I have discovered how easy soda bread is to make - this is my loaf of choice every time.



There is no yeast, no proving, no kneading, no waiting and no messing about!  Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

9oz Spelt Flour

Half a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

Half a teaspoon of salt

7 Fluid ounces of milk mixed with a dessert spoon of lemon juice (traditionally buttermilk is used but this is something I never have in the fridge!)

Melted butter for painting on if you want a less crunchy top.

 

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas
2. In a big bowl, mix together the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
3. Add the milk/lemon juice mixture and mix until a soft and sticky dough forms.
4. Make sure it's all gathered together and tip onto a greased baking tray in a rough round shape.  The more craggy it is the more crunchy it will be.
5. Bake for 25 minutes at 200C/400F/Gas 6. The loaf should be golden-brown and sound hollow when you tap the bottom.
6. Paint with melted butter whilst still warm if you want a softer crust.
7. Leave to cool on a wire rack. This is best eaten on the day of baking, but I cut into slices and freeze then toast from frozen.

This is perfect for breakfast, lightly toasted and spread with coconut oil and honey, or dipped into homemade thick soup.

 

As you can see from the photos it is a very honest and not very pretty loaf with a close texture but tastes divine and is cheap and so easy to do!!

 

Happy baking - let me know how you get on with it!!

 

 

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