This Guinness Bread made with wholemeal flour, oats, treacle and stout is so quick to make and tastes sensational with jam or cheese. A delicious soda loaf bread that requires no yeast or a mixer.
90g(1 cup) rolled oatsplus 1 tbsp to sprinkle on bread
1tbspbrown sugar
2tspbaking soda(bicarbonate of soda)
1tspbaking powder
½tspsalt
Wet ingredients
240ml(1 cup) buttermilk
255ml(1 ½ cups) Guinness or similar stout
2tbspmelted butter or vegetable oil
2tbspmolasses or treacle
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Mist a 2 lb/ 900g loaf pan with cake release and line with baking paper, letting the edges of the paper overhang slightly.
Add all the wet ingredients into a bowl or large measuring jug and stir to combine.
Measure the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix together.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir gently to combine until the batter is smooth and no dry streaks remain.
Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and sprinkle with the oats. Bake for 35 minutes then reduce the oven temperature to 350°F (180°C) and continue to bake for a further 25 minutes. Turn the oven off, open the door slightly ajar and leave the bread in the oven until it has cooled down, an extra 30 minutes or so.
Turn out onto a cooling rack, slice and enjoy!
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Notes
Store the bread in a cake tin for 3 days or slice and freeze then toast from frozen.