Oatmeal Soda Bread
"Simple bread recipe from the Food Network website / Emeril Live. Needs to sit for 12 hours before baking."
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 2 1⁄2 cups oatmeal
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- flour, for dusting
- 1⁄2 teaspoon butter
directions
- In a mini-food processor, pulse the oatmeal until the meal is very fine. Turn into a mixing bowl. Stir the buttermilk into the oats and cover with plastic wrap.
- Let the oatmeal steep in the buttermilk for 12 hours (recipe doesn't state, but I refrigerate!).
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan with the butter.
- In a mixing bowl, sift the other ingredients together.
- Stir in the steeped oatmeal and mix well. If the mixture is too wet add a little more flour.
- Lightly dust the work surface with some flour. Turn the dough out onto the surface and knead the dough a couple of times to form a soft ball like shape.
- Press the dough into a round about 2 inches thick.
- Using a sharp knife, make a criss-cross cut into the bread.
- Place the bread in the prepared pan. Bake until golden brown, about 25 to 30 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
- Serve the bread warm with butter.
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Dear Vino Girl, This recipe was outstanding! I soured milk with vinegar the first time. I kept the oatmeal, milk mixyure on the counter, covered and after 5 hours, mixed the flour and dry ingredients in and baked it. It was amazing! The second time, I did the 12 hour wait thing and we did not like it as much. I prefer the texture at the 5 hour mark versus the 12 hour time. The oatmeal was a bit more whole in that loaf. Thank you for sharing a wonderful recipe. By the way, I dropped a quarter cup of sugar into the oatmeal/milk mixture to liven the flavor up a bit! WONDERFUL!
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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