We simply couldn’t share Avoca’s best soups without including a recipe for their famous brown bread. One of the very first Avoca recipes, it’s now over 30 years old and is still a firm favourite. For dipping, mopping and dunking, this brown bread is best sliced thick and slathered in Irish butter
Avoca’s Famous Brown Bread Recipe
Ingredients:
- Oil, for greasing
- 300g coarse wholemeal flour
- 200g plain flour
- 3 tbsp bran
- 2 tbsp wheat germ
- 2 heaped tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
- 1 dessertspoon treacle
- 600ml milk
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 200°C. Grease a 2lb loaf tin well with oil or use a paper liner or a sheet of non-stick baking paper.
- Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Add the treacle and stir in most of the milk to create a moist mixture. You may not need to use all the milk.
- Scrape into the greased or lined loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, until risen. Reduce the heat to 170°C and bake for a further 40 minutes.
- Remove from the oven, run a knife around the tin and ease the bread out. If it sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom, it’s done. If not, return it to the oven for 5 to 10 minutes more.
- Allow to cool on a wire rack before cutting into slices to serve. This keeps well for a few days and makes the most delicious toast in the morning.
Variation: Multiseed Bread
Add a handful of seeds of your choosing to make a multiseed version. We like to use linseeds as well as pumpkin, sesame, sunflower and poppy seeds.
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