Wholemeal Bread with Irish Stout….

This quick and easy bread recipe is a family favourite and is especially delicious served with cheese!

You will need:

• a 1lb loaf tin, well greased
• 450g of coarse wholemeal flour
• 2 level teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda
• 25g of pinhead oatmeal
• 2 tablespoons of Demerara sugar
• 50g of butter
• 1 tablespoon of treacle
• 400mls of stout

Method:

1. preheat the oven to 180°C
2. rub the butter into the flour and then stir in the sugar, oatmeal and bicarbonate of soda
3. dissolve the treacle in the stout
4. make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and pour the stout and treacle into this
5. using a wooden spoon, beat everything together until blended – the consistency of the mixture should be like wet sand!

6. pour the mixture into the prepared tin, sprinkle a few rolled oats onto the surface and bake for about 50 minutes

7. remove the bread from the tin and return it to the oven for another 5 minutes

8. leave the bread on a wire rack to cool if possible before tucking in!