Irish Brown Soda Bread

Name: Irish Brown Soda Bread
Yield: Serves 8 (Makes one 8-inch loaf)
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 2 cups (11 ounces), whole-wheat flour; 1 cup (5 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 cup, wheat bran; 1/4 cup, wheat germ; 2 teaspoons, sugar; 1 1/2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1 1/2 teaspoons, baking soda; 1 teaspoon, salt; 2 cups, buttermilk

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2018

Desserts or Baked Goods

Irish

Breads

SERVES8 (Makes one 8-inch loaf)

TIME1¼ hours, plus 1 hour cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our take on Irish brown soda bread combines a high proportion of whole-wheat flour with extra wheat germ and bran to produce a rustic loaf with nutty flavor and an appropriately coarse crumb. We balanced the strong wheat flavor with white f...

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