Dromoland Castle's Homemade Brown Bread
Yields 1 loaf

Ingredients:

• 300g wholemeal flour
• 40g plain white flour
• 20g wheat bran
• 20g brown sugar
• 1 heaped (sieved) teaspoon Bread Soda
• Pinch of salt
• 40mls sunflower oil or olive oil (Flora)
• 1 egg
• 500mls buttermilk (soured)

Directions:

1. Mix all dry ingredients together.
2. Make a well in the centre of the mixture and add your wet ingredients (milk, oil, egg.)
3. Mix well but do not over-mix either: once all the ingredients are combined leave it alone!
4. Pour into a well greased loaf tin.
5. Cook at 200C for 1hr 5mins.
6. Turn out on a rack and leave to cool.

Notes from the chef at Dromoland Castle Hotel: "This is a lovely brown bread, kind of sweet too. It’s a wet mixture so no need for any mess with kneading. It is really easy to make, it only takes about 10 minutes. I believe the key to it is not to keep on stirring the mixture, once it is all mixed together, leave it alone!"