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Beginners Bread: Cheesy Soda Bread

Jess Brown
An easy and quick way to make naturally healthy bread for the whole family (or just yourself!)
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 1 loaf

Ingredients
  

  • 500 g Stoneground Wholemeal plain flour
  • 1 tsp Bicarb of soda
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 400 ml Kefir or organic buttermilk
  • 100 g Organic cheese grated - optional

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 200c and line a baking tray with parchment
  • Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
  • Add the Kefir to form a sticky dough. Place the dough onto a lightly floured surface and shape into a ball (this is a good point to add in flavours like cheese, bacon, herbs etc)
  • Put the dough onto the baking tray and mark it into quarters cutting about halfway down.
  • Bake for 30min or till its cooked. This is when it is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped on the base. Cool on a wire rack.

Notes

This is best eaten fresh with lots of butter but freezes well too!
Would be tasty with bacon, cheese and onion, olives, raisins, chilli, cinamon sugar, - bascially anything!
Also this will work fine with other flour or blends - for example a 50/50 mix of spelt/wholemeal give good results too.
Adapted from Paul Hollywood