Irish oatmeal bread

Description

This delicious soda bread recipe from the book "Celtic folk kitchen" is usually baked in the way. According to the author, a collector of folklore, and recipes, Joan Asali, a loaf of oat bread with a traditional incision in the form of a Celtic cross can protect traveller from illness and give them strength to overcome long distances. Irish immigrants going to America, took along a few loaves of oat bread, and the author still bakes it, going on a trip.

Ingredients

Milk

1 cup
Lemon juice

1 Tbsp
Oat flakes

1.25 cup
Flour

1.25 cup
Salt

0.25 tsp
Soda

0.5 tsp

Cooking

Here is a set of products that you'll need baking soda oatmeal bread. Still need salt. If you have no buttermilk, then replace it on yogurt, make your own from warmed up 36-37градусов 1 Cup milk and 1 tbsp of fresh lemon juice. Mix the juice and warm milk. Mix for 1 minute and let stand for 5 minutes.

Grind with a coffee grinder oatmeal to grits, measure out 1.25 cups and fill them with a cooked buttermilk, add 1/4 tsp salt. Stir and let stand 1-2 hours.

Preheat oven to 175 degrees C, flour the baking tray or shape in which you bake bread (I have a cast-iron skillet). Thoroughly mix 1.25 cups of strong wheat flour and 1/2 tsp of soda (soda, not extinguish)

Mix the flour and oatmeal. Mix quickly with your fingertips, gather the dough into a lump, but do not wrinkle it, otherwise instead of bread will receive a stone. And act quickly - from the start of the batch you have only 4-5 minutes soda the dough does not like procrastination.

Form a round loaf, a little prelucrate it, sprinkle the flour through a sieve and apply with a bread knife cut in the form of a Celtic cross, with a depth of about 1.25 cm ("release the fairies", as one would say Irish). Put the loaf on a floured baking sheet and faster in the oven for 30-35 minutes

Oven door it is advisable not to open the first 30 minutes that the dough is not settled. The readiness of the bread is determined by tapping the bottom crust, the sound should be a dull, empty.

This bread is served hot with unsalted butter and cheese.

Often a piece of such bread, cheese and a glass of milk with dinner are Irish.

This delicate and delicious quick bread that brings health and protect from harm, also perfectly suited for Breakfast.

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