
Baking
Irish Brown Bread Recipe: A Wholemeal Tin Loaf
Use a complete wholemeal recipe rather than swapping flour into a white loaf. This guide follows Odlums' brown soda loaf, with the formula below.
Good soda bread moves quickly because bicarbonate and acidic buttermilk begin reacting as soon as they meet. That is chemistry asking the baker to stop checking messages. We use gram-first formulas, recompute conversions, and explain texture cues so a rustic loaf is rustic by design rather than by alibi.

Use a complete wholemeal recipe rather than swapping flour into a white loaf. This guide follows Odlums' brown soda loaf, with the formula below.

For one round Irish soda bread loaf, heat the oven to 200°C/392°F. Whisk 450 grams plain flour with 5 grams bicarbonate of soda and 6 grams fine salt.