Soda Bread
Jack Hughes
St. Hanshaugen
- Type rett
- Porsjoner
- Bakst
- 4
Jack Hughes sier
My mother made this bread regularly for friends and family. She died when I was 25, just before i moved to Oslo. As a way to remember her I started trying to make it, never quite achieving the same flavour as hers. I used my new friends as taste testers when they came round for meals. It became a connecter between us all. The smell of warm bread was a gift from my mother’s ghost and became a catalyst for many of my most important friendships today. It also tastes great.
For å lage dette trenger du
2 cups of normal flour
1 tsp of natron
1 tsp of sugar
Pinch of salt
1 cup of kulturmelk (plus extra if it needs it)
Extra flour for dusting
Frying pan
Gjør følgende
10 min prep time.
20 minute cooking time.
1: Mix the dry ingredients in a big bowl.
2: Pre-heat the frying pan at the middle setting (not too hot, it will burn).
3: Add the kulturmelk and mix. You shouldn't mix too much. Just enough to make the flour wet. It should be able to form a sticky shape without it flopping down too much. No kneading or anything. If its too dry, just add a bit more kulturmelk. I always add a wee splash more.
4: Put quite a lot of flour on the workbench and drop the wet dough mix on top of it. Next pour flour over the top of the dough. It should be covered on all sides and so that you can gently form it into a flat circle 2cm high and around the size of your frying pan. If you get dough on your hands, just push more flour on the sides or on top.
5: Once formed, get a knife and cut the wet dough into 4 quarters (or farls as we call them). Transfer these, one by one over to the frying pan, that should be warm by now. They are very floppy. If they just don't hold together they were too wet.
6: The bread will cook and rise quite a bit. Once it has risen and you can smell the flour toasting, you can check the underside. It should be light golden brown.
7: Flip each farl (the quarters) being careful because the top side is still raw, and cook for another 10 minutes or so, checking that it is crusty on both sides.
8: Eat when its warm with lots of butter. Poached eggs are great too. I also use it as a burger bun sometimes. Yum.
Ekstra info
Soda bread is a generic term meaning bread that is leavened with natron, but in Northern Ireland where i'm from, it means this bread. Its fast, easy to make and delicious. You can mix loads of stuff in. My favourites are raisins or mørk syrup.