Wheaten Bread

The world calls it Irish soda bread, the Irish call it...well.... soda bread. People from my little corner of Ireland call it wheaten.  Our soda bread is something entirely different. Wheaten is beautiful spread with loads of butter(if you want healthy a baking blog is not for you), and served with cheese or soup.
 
I am going to try to bake some wheaten today.
It is not my first try so this version has been modified to prevent the horror of exploding wheaten that crumbles everywhere on contact with a knife and butter.

Wheaten Bread
Oven 200C

250g wholemeal Flour
150g plain flour
60g butter
1tsp salt (a tsp is not the wee silver teaspoon widely used to stir tea it is an actual measurement of 50g)
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tbsp caster sugar (or less if you are sweet enough)
Around 300 mls buttermilk
A little honey and oats for top(optional)

I rubbed together the butter and dry ingredients until they where the texture of breadcrumbs then started adding the butter milk(I didn't bother measuring the butter milk and poured straight from the carton.) until it formed a dough.


                                                                                                                         

 

 

 I then kneaded the dough for a minute or two.

Until it became a smooth ball which I topped with honey and oats and placed on a well floured tray.

 

 

I then baked it. I never time my baking. I probably baked for at least 30 minutes before performing a probe with a cake tester.

The end product.

Success.

Lovely with cheese or soup.