Lockdown Recipes: Maverick Soda Bread

Soda bread, beloved of the gods. Normally made with buttermilk and other such goodies. Here is my Lockdown Maverick Soda bread. It's fantastic and doesn't have buttermilk because let's face it, it's Lockdown, we can't be milking the butters now, can we? it's not just something you always have lying around!!

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So I find myself today hungover and a little sorry for myself. Well I know what I normally do when feeling a bit meh... I bake me some bread.

So imagine my horror when I find that I am out of yeast?! Enter the soda bread! No yeast, just bicarb of soda.

I apologise to the purists out there, this one is not your typical soda bread. But it still tastes fantastic!

You will need

450 grams of strong white flour
50 grams of rolled oats
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
1 big tablespoon of black molasses (oh yeah!)
400 mls of milk
1 tablespoon of lemon juice

No buttermilk or wholemeal flour you cry? Indeed, hence the maverick in the title!

To make

Get your oven on at 200 degrees celcius

Mix your flour, salt, bicarb of soda and oats in a bowl

Pile in the molasses, you might need a finger to spleb it off the spoon

Combine your milk and lemon juice and add to the mix

Give that a good stir and wallop it into a bread tin. Yes, I know, a bread tin... Maverick!!

Bake for forty minutes, then get it out and cool on a rack

Cor blimey!! Would you look at that guv!!

Slice it, wallop a spicy habanero omelette in it and BOOM

Or just eat it straight up, like a hombre!!