Mrs Mccanns Oaty Brown Soda Bread Recipes

MCCANN'S OAT BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Lightly dust the surface of a baking sheet with flour.
• Stir together the flours, oats, sugar and baking soda in a large mixing bowl.
• Using your fingertips, quickly rub in the butter.
• Make a well in the centre and gradually stir in the buttermilk with a wooden spoon until the dough is soft and manageable.
• (You might not use all the buttermilk.).
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for about 1 minute.
• Divide in half.
• Shape the dough into two balls and place in the centre of the baking sheet.
• Use the palm of your hand to flatten the dough into disks about 1 1/2 inches thick.
• Use a sharp knife to cut a fairly deep cross into each disk so that it will break apart easily into quarters after baking.
• Bake for approximately 35 minutes or until browned and the tester emerges clean and the bottom sounds hollow when tapped.
• Cool slightly on a rack before serving warm.

BROWN SODA BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 220°C/425°F/Gas 7. Dust selected tin generously with flour (we always used a Swiss roll tin for this bread).
• 2. Sieve the plain flour, salt and soda into a large mixing bowl. Add the wholemeal flour and mix well, lifting the dry ingredients just above the bowl's rim in order to circulate air and produce a lighter bread.
• 3. Beat the egg in a small bowl and beat in the buttermilk. Make a well in the dry ingredients, add the liquid and mix to a soft dough with a wooden spoon or by hand.
• 4. Bring dough together with flour-dusted fingers and turn out on a lightly floured surface. Knead lightly into the smooth desired shape. If the dough is sticky, dust over a little more flour and knead it in to make it more manageable. Transfer to prepared tin, dust with wholemeal and cut a cross on top with a sharp knife to allow to rise evenly.
• 5. Bake in preheated oven for 30-40 minutes. Remove from tin and tap the base of the bread. If it sounds hollow it us cooked, if not return to the oven for a few more minutes. Cool on a wire rack before serving with country butter and home-made jam for the full experience.

BROWN SODA BREAD WITH OATS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch bread pan.
• In a large bowl, mix together flours, steel-cut oats, rolled oats, brown sugar, salt and sifted baking soda. Mix well with your hands.
• Make a well in the center of flour mixture. Pour in buttermilk. Working from the center of the bowl in concentric clockwise circles, with fingers outstretched, stir buttermilk into flour mixture. (You can use a rubber spatula instead if you don't like getting dough on your hands.) This should take about a half a minute at most. Dough will be quite moist. Use a rubber spatula to scrape into bread pan and smooth out the dough to fill pan evenly ( the pan will be filled only about halfway.)
• Place in the oven and bake 40 minutes, until dark brown and a tester inserted comes out clean. Remove from pan and cool on a rack.

MRS. O'CALLAGHAN'S SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Spray heavy baking sheet with nonstick spray.
• Whisk both flours, sugar, and baking soda and either option you might be using in medium bowl to blend.
• Add margarine and cut in until margarine is reduced to pea-size pieces and add buttermilk; stir until shaggy dough forms.
• Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface and knead until dough comes together, about 10 turns.
• Shape dough into 7 to 9-inch round (the round should be about 1 inch high).
• Place dough on prepared baking sheet.
• Cut large X, 1/2 inch deep, in top of dough.
• Bake bread in center of oven for 15 min at 425 F then turn it down to 375 F for 40-45 minutes until deep brown and bottom sounds hollow when firmly tapped (a bamboo skewer inserted into the center of the bread should emerge clean without any stickiness or moistness), about 55-60 minutes total oven time.
• Transfer bread to rack and cool completely.
• Enjoy it's dense, hearty texture.
• TIP:.
• For this kind of dough, the less you handle and work it the better.

MRS. O'CALLAGHAN'S SODA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F. Spray heavy baking sheet with nonstick spray. Whisk both flours, sugar, and baking soda in medium bowl to blend. Add margarine and cut in until margarine is reduced to pea-size pieces. Add buttermilk; stir until shaggy dough forms. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface. Knead until dough comes together, about 10 turns. Shape dough into 7-inch round. Place dough on prepared baking sheet. Cut large X, 1/2 inch deep, in top of dough.
• Bake bread until deep brown and bottom sounds hollow when firmly tapped, about 40 minutes. Transfer bread to rack and cool completely.