Irish Soda Farls

On our first visit to Belfast we discovered something called “soda bread” which was served at breakfast at the Tara Lodge where we stayed. It was the most amazing bread we had ever tasted eaten only with butter.

On coming back to Kuwait, all hubby could talk about was this soda bread. While I was subsequently away in Malaysia this Ramadhan, he googled and experimented until he produced an almost perfect soda bread.

This recipe is still work-in-progress he says but it can only get better!

INGREDIENTS

300 gms all purpose white flour
250 ml buttermilk
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

DIRECTIONS

Put the salt, bicarbonate of soda and flour in a bowl and mix well. Add the buttermilk, mix well until a solid dough forms. Sprinkle flour on a clean smooth surface, flatten the dough with flour on the top. Form a circle and continue flattening it with your hands until its around 1 cm thick.

Cut the dough into quarters, heat a heavy based chapati pan or something similar and put the pieces to cook on low heat. A diffuser helps to spread the heat evenly. Cook approximately 15 mins each side until brown.

To eat, slice this bread down the middle and toast. Goes well with butter and even marmalade.

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