Marie's brown soda bread

4 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
15 ounces Whole-wheat flour
5 ounces Plain white flour
2 teaspoons Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking soda
3 ounces Soft butter
½ pint Buttermilk
1 ounce Sunflower seeds

Directions

In a large bowl mix together the two flours, sugar, salt, and baking soda. Rub in the butter with your fingers until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. Make a center well and pour in buttermilk. Mix again and shape into a round cake. Sprinkle with sunflower seeds.

Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in a 400-degree oven. Test by inserting a long wooden skewer into the center of the bread. If it comes out clean the bread is cooked. If tapped on the bottom, it should sound hollow. Take out and cool on a wire tray.

This is an old recipe given to my wife, Marie Deering, by her mother.

The sunflower seeds are a recent embellishment.

GOURMET GETAWAYS WITH ROBIN LEACH SHOW #GG1B01 Guest: Donna Hanover (Courtesy of Gerry Galvin, chef at Drimcong House)

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