Brown Irish Soda Bread

This delicious SIMPLE bread recipe is great at meals or slather it with jam for dessert!

Course Bread

Cuisine Irish

Keyword brown irish soda bread, irish soda bread, soda bread

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 38

Total Time 48

Servings pieces

Calories 143kcal

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F and liberally grease a loaf pan or a medium sized cast iron skillet.
Add spelt flour, almond flour, baking soda and salt in large bowl and use a pastry cutter to combine the ingredients.
3 cups spelt flour, 1 cup almond flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt
Add butter and use a dough cutter to get pea sized clumps in mixture.
4 tablespoons butter
In a small bowl whisk egg, milk and maple syrup together.
1.5 cups buttermilk, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons maple syrup
Add egg mixture to flour mixture and stir until well mixed. It will be somewhat wet and sticky.
Transfer dough to the (bread pan) or cast iron skillet and bake for 35 - 40 minutes.
Let cool for 10 minutes in pan before removing it to a wire rack. Let cool before cutting.
Slather with butter or jam.
Eat
Smile
Enjoy

When cutting the butter into the flour mixture, you can either use room temperature butter or cold butter. I can't taste the difference. So, whichever you prefer to use, just know it tastes great both ways.
If you can't find sprouted spelt flour, use regular spelt or whole wheat flour or, if you prefer the white version, use all purpose flour.
Make your own buttermilk if you don't have any on hand. I use a powdered mix for this recipe, but I will also make buttermilk using almond milk on occasion (Recipe: 1 cup of buttermilk = 1 cup of the milk mixed with 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar or lemon for the same effect.)
If you prefer real milk, mix 1 cup of milk with ONE tablespoon apple cider vinegar or lemon to yield 1 cup of buttermilk.