Seedy rosemary soda bread
Cassie Best · bbcgoodfood.com · 2022 · Makes 1 loaf
Against 123 Irish soda bread recipes
Less buttermilk than 95% of recipes and more baking soda than 91%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 123 Irish soda bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less buttermilk than 95% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 84%.
- More baking soda than 91% of recipes: 2.4% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about twice as much.
- No sugar at all, where 54% of recipes use some (most of those 5 to 11% of the flour weight).
Ingredients (19)
- 300g plain white flour plus a little extra for dusting300 g
- 200g plain wholemeal flour200 g
- 25g butter25 g
- 25g rosemary sprigs25 g
- 50g mixed seeds (we used a mix of sunflower, pumpkin and linseed/flaxseed)50 g
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda≈ 12 g
- 1 tsp salt≈ 6 g
- 275ml milk (dairy or oat)≈ 284 g
- 2 tsp lemon juice≈ 10 g
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flour 500 gbatter 911 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 123 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Buttermilk57% · 4th percentile · median 84%
- Baking soda2.4% · 94th percentile · median 1.2%
- Butter5% · 45th percentile · median 5.6%
- Sugar0% · 23rd percentile · median 1%
- Egg0% · 28th percentile · median 0%
- Salt1.2% · 46th percentile · median 1.2%
Oven
- Temperature
- 400°F / 205°C
- median 400°F
- Time
- 35 minutes
- median 40 minutes
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