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If you want a taste of Ireland, this is delicious, but a warning

17 years ago

It's also HEALTHY, but too much really cleans out your system (trust me, I know, and had to stop eating it)

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Irish Brown Bread

If you can't get to Ireland to savour their wonderful Brown Bread, this is the best recipe using American whole wheat flour:

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour

3 tablespoons toasted wheat bran

3 tablespoons toasted wheat germ

2 tablespoons old-fashioned oats

2 tablespoons packed dark brown sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces

2 cups buttermilk

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Butter a 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Combine first 8 ingredients in large bowl; mix well. Add butter; rub in with fingertips until mixture resembles fine meal. Stir in enough buttermilk to form soft dough. Transfer dough to prepared loaf pan.

Bake until bread is dark brown and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Turn bread out of pan and cool right side up on rack.

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Comments (6)

caflowerluver
17 years ago
Thanks for the recipe. I will have to try it. My DH loved that bread when he was over there for business. I have been looking for a tried and true recipe for years. He would eat it with a pint of Guinness. He has been drinking that for over 36 years. He loves the stuff, can't take it myself.
Clare
glenda_al
Original Author
17 years ago
Every place we stayed had the brown bread for breakfast, lunch, dinner. I OVERATE and my system was not a happy camper until I realized the BREAD was the culprit.

Eat this in moderation, not overeat like I did.

DELICIOUS! I think I said this already----DELICIOUS!
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bigfoot_liz
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i have a fruit & bran muffin recipe that is almost exactly like that (w/ much larger quantities of ingredients) but w/ dried fruits added and stone ground whole wheat flour...no processed flours. there is sooo much fiber in them you add boiling water and it sits for 15-20 minutes to soften lol. and yeah 1 a day is all that should be consumed lol.

the correct type of flour can be ordered from King Arthur flours online BTW. when i lived in chicago i made that bread at holidays ~ liz
glenda_al
Original Author
17 years ago
So yummy! Mine was much darker than this picture.

{{!gwi}}
Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
17 years ago
I'm familiar with toasted wheat germ, but not toasted wheat bran. I guess I'll have to remember to do some serious looking for it. It sounds DELICIOUS, and I like things that help with 'regulation'.

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caroline94535
17 years ago
I can't wait to try this Glenda! Thanks for all the wonderful photos and sharing your vacation.

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