Name: Traditional Irish Soda Bread
Ingredients: 5 mugs coarse wheat flour; 2 mugs quick oats (or place old fashion oats in a food processor and pulse a few times); large pinch sea salt; 2 tsp baking soda; 2 lumps butter; 2 pints buttermilk

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

I learned this recipe while baking for a restaurant in West Cork Ireland. The baker used coffee mugs for measurements, so I continue her tradition. Use a standard mug- not an oversized one.

Author Irish Family Recipe

Ingredients

5 mugs coarse wheat flour
2 mugs quick oats (or place old fashion oats in a food processor and pulse a few times)
large pinch sea salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 lumps butter
2 pints buttermilk

Instructions

Preheat to 375 and grease 2 loaf tins
Mix together all ingredients, stirring in buttermilk last. Bake for about 1 hour and then turn upside down in tin to cool for 15 minutes.