Guinness Brown Bread
traditional irish soda bread made with guinness
Servings 12 slices or 1 loaf
Calories 221kcal
Equipment
- 1 loaf tin
Ingredients
- 50 g butter
- 1 tbsp treacle or molasses
- 450 g wholemeal flour
- 25 g oats
- 4 tbsp brown sugar
- 80 g chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans work well here)
- 2 tsp bread/baking soda
- 400 ml guinness
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees or gas 5
- Lightly grease a 2lb loaf tin
- Combine the wholemeal flour (sift the flour if possible, you may not be able to if its a coarse wholemeal and that will still work), oats, sugar and chopped nuts into a bowl and mix well
- Sift in the baking soda also
- Add the butter and treacle to a saucepan. Melt slowly over a low heat.
- When the butter and treacle has melted, add the guinness and stor.
- Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Transfer mixture to the prepared tin. Sprinkle a few more oats and nuts on top.
- Bake for about 40-50 minutes until risen.
- The bread is baked when it has a hollow sound when tapped underneath.
- Wrap in a clean tea towel and allow to cool.
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Nutrition
Calories: 221kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 444mg | Potassium: 68mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 105IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 87mg | Iron: 1mg