Irish brown bread royal hibernian
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | each | Or 2 loaves |
| 5 | cups | Whole wheat flour |
| 2½ | cup | White flour |
| ⅓ | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | teaspoons | Sugar |
| 2 | teaspoons | Soda |
| 2 | eaches | Eggs |
| 2¼ | cup | Buttermilk |
| 1 | cup | Softened butter or margarine |
Directions
In a large mixing bowl, combine the whole wheat flour, sugar, soda and salt. In a separate bowl beat eggs until frothy and add buttermilk.
Combine milk mixture and softened butter with the flour mixture and beat with an electric mixer for 2 minutes. Add white flour gradually and turn dough out onto a floured board. Knead thoroughly. Divide dough in half and shape into 2 round balls. Flatten the tops slightly and, with a knife, cut an "X" about ½ inch deep. Put loaves on a greased cookie sheet or into 2 9x5-inch loaf pans. (For loaf pans, cut slash down center lengthwise.) Bake at 400 F for 50 minutes.
Cool before cutting into thin slices. Colorado Cache Cookbook (1978) From the collection of Jim Vorheis