Soda Bread

This is my recipe for soda bread. This uses bicarbonate of soda rather than yeast to make the bread rise (I used SR flour). This is, as usual, my own recipe rather than an authentic Irish recipe. Traditionally, one should use buttermilk, but I used yoghurt instead. It tasted a little odd. Maybe better to use skimmed milk.

Ingredients

300 gms of plain yoghurt
salt

Equipment

bowl
baking tray
knife

oven:
time in oven: 25 mins

preparation time:
knead dough
wait for first rise
knead and shape dough
25 mins to cook
cool down

Cooking process

Add the yoghurt (or milk or water) to the flour and mix into a stiff dough. You don't need to knead it.
Shape the dough as you wish, to create the final shape of the loaf, and put it on a baking tray ready for baking. I made it into a circle, then cuty it deeply. Possibly too deeply!
Sprinkle water on top (this is to stop too much burning on top). Put in the oven to cook.
When done, it should sound hollow underneath when tapped. Put it on a rack to dry (or it can get a bit soggy underneath).