Charity Chomp: The loafly soda bread recipe you need this autumn

Saturday 15 October 2022

Looking for the perfect loaf to complement your autumnal soups and meals? We've got the perfect recipe - and it can be made and ready to eat within the hour...

For this week's Charity Chomp, Caring Cooks has shared one of the recipes from its Let's Get Cooking Programme in schools.

The charity, which provides nutritious food to families across the island as well as hot meals and cooking education in schools, described it as a "super quick bread recipe, containing no yeast, which can be made in the hour".

"It can be served with a hearty vegetable soup to make the perfect lunch," they recommended... and Express thinks it could go rather well with last week's Charity Chomp, a Hap-pea Houmous recipe for Jersey Hospice...

(serves eight)

ALLERGY ADVICE: Contains gluten and dairy

Soda Bread

Ingredients:

240g wholemeal strong flour

100g self-raising flour

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp sugar

½ tsp salt

284 ml buttermilk

50g oats for dusting

Equipment:

Bowl

Weighing scales

Measuring spoons

Baking tray

Knife

Cooling rack

Method:

1. Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6.

2. Measure the dry ingredients into a bowl and combine.

3. Make a well in the flour and add the buttermilk.

4. Mix well with your hand to form soft dough. Do not over mix or the bread will be heavy.

5. Shape the dough into a ball and place onto a baking tray lightly dusted with half of the oats. Sprinkle the remaining oats onto the top of the bread and gently pat down to secure.

6. Using a knife cut a deep cross in the top of the bread.

7. Place into the pre-heated oven and bake for 30 minutes until a firm crust has formed and it sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom.

8. Remove from the oven and place onto the cooling rack. Allow to cool before slicing and serving.

Remember, there's one key rule with Charity Chomp... if you think it's delicious, donate!

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