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Learn How to Make Irish Brown Soda Bread ft. Donal Skehan | What’s Eating Dan?

To get ready for St. Patrick’s Day, Dan is teaching us how to make classic Irish Brown Soda Bread, with some expert tips from our favorite Irish YouTuber, Donal Skehan.

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when I was a little kid and I firstlearned about Irish soda bread I waspumped because I pictured bread one ofmy favorite foods made with two thingsthat my mom basically always forbid inthe house Lucky Charms cereal and orangesoda you could say I was a littledisappointed when I tried it for thefirst time but that has all changed sodabread isn’t just fast fun flavorful andfiber packed it also lends itselfsurprisingly well to alliteration in thespeedy bread category soda bread trumpsall other contenders even so-calledquick breads like banana bread come frommore ingredients and take a littlelonger to put together the oldestrecipes for Irish soda bread confer justfour ingredients whole grain flour saltbutter milk and baking soda and thedough comes together way faster than youcan preheat your oven now given my sodaand cereal beginnings with this bread Ireally wanted to get to the bottom ofwhat makes it off and take a loaf a goodbuddy Donald was born and raised inIreland but now he lives out in no wayhe’s written tons of cookbooks he has aTV show an awesome YouTube channeldedicated to home cooking and he’spromised to show me how to make hisIrish soda breadwhat is your Irish soda bread start withlike what’s the first ingredient thatgoes in the first thing I do is a bigbag of flour and a big bag of wholemealflour so – as a combination to lightenthat wholemeal flour out I now I’m goingto introduce the a controversialingredient yeah I know you’re waitingfor it an egg and the egg I add is forrichness and it also kind of helps yougive a more kind of get a more sort ofsolid loaf as it comes out a little bitof honey now that is not a traditionalingredient in there but the sweetnessworks really well did you get your standmixer out or your food processor out toput this together literally you shouldbe doing with your hands I mean that’show my grandmother used to do it so Inoticed that most Irish soda bread isscored that has like a kind of a crosson top of it is that because ofexpansion like what’s the reason behindthat well it may be its expansion butwhat I was always told is that it was tolet the fairies age so your blessing thebread of something that I do every timeI make below my final question is aroundhow you eat Irish soda bread so it’slike an everyday bread you always wantedaround but butter yes butter it’s theperfect vehicle for some cold Irishbutter that should be thick enough thatwhen you bite into it you see teethmarks and if not if that’s not the caseyou haven’t done it rice okay this isfantastic thank you for all of thisawesome background information I thinkit’s enough for me to get into thekitchen and start making some Irishsoda bread I know you can do us I havefull faith now before we get bakinglet’s look at why soda bread is one ofthe fastest breads you can make checkout this experiment so this empty bottleI’m adding some lukewarm water that I’vedissolved some sugar into then I’ll adda bunch of instant yeast and pop on theballoon we’ll let that sit while I’dvinegar to the second water bottle usinga funnel I’m adding baking soda to theballoon itself then we just attach tothe bottle invert the balloon and whoalook at that reaction the ballooninstantly inflates on the other hand theyeast setup doesn’t really good it’sdoing anything after wait at least 10minutes before we see some activity andconsiderably longer than that till theballoon actually inflatesand don’t get me wrong yeast is awonderful thing along with creatingcarbon dioxide that will inflate theballoon or the gluten Network in a loafof bread it’s doing its thing andcreating tons of flavorful byproductsbut it’s a relatively slow to do itsthing baking soda or sodium bicarbonateon the other hand reacts instantly whenit encounters an acid in solution andthat is great for speed I think it’stime to put together a loaf and for thatwe need Cook’s Illustrated deputy foodat her Andrea Gary’s recipe for Irishbrown soda bread you remember Andreafrom the ultimate biscuit showdown rightshe created the easiest fastest biscuitsever and now she’s done it again withbread man Andrews bringing the speedycarbs to the masses now one thing thatwe don’t really have here in the u.s. iswholemeal flour it’s whole wheat flourthere’s really coarse than ground so youget these big pieces of bran and germthat help break up the structure of theloafergive you this really nice coarse crockAmerican Hobie it’s actually groundpretty fine so the best way to get thatcoarseness back is to add some wheatgerm it’s a wheat bran okay real quickwheat primer this is a wheat berry thestarchy white core is the endospermit’s where white flour is ground fromand where the gluten forming proteinsglutenin and gliadin are found then wehave the fiber rich bran which acts as aprotective coating on the wheat berryand finally the oil-rich germ okay let’sget back to the recipe I’m starting withwhole wheat flour and adding someall-purpose flour in a two-to-one ratiothe all-purpose flour will improvegluten development and give us morestructure and lift then we add our brandin our germ we’re gonna add a littlesugar and the star of our show got outof that baking soda we’re gonna go offthe traditional script but we’reactually gonna add some of beepowder to the mix this is double actingbaking powder meaning that we get aburst of carbon dioxide production whenit first gets wet and then a secondburst when he heats up in the oven thatcombination of baking soda and bakingpowder will give our loaf additionallift and the final dry ingredient issalt now for the buttermilk and nomessing around there it’s the source ofacidity that will react with the bakingsoda then we just use a rubber spatulato fold and mix up what am I talkingabout I got to get my hands in therelike the hood now we just shape into aroundrustic loaf score it don’t let thefairies out and then transfer it to acake ground to bake oh just look at thisgorgeous thing deeply browned its craggyit’s perfect for slicing and slatheringwith salted butter one thing is forcertain this is how to eat Irish sodabread so big thanks to Donnell youhaven’t checked out Donnell’s channelyet you got to do it he’s got awesomerecipes on there there’s a link to itbelow and it hasn’t subscribed here whatare you waiting for hit that button

15 Replies to “Learn How to Make Irish Brown Soda Bread ft. Donal Skehan | What’s Eating Dan?

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  2. Slather – such an excellent word.  Dan is awesomely literate, or would that be literately awesome.  In any case, he is literally awesome.  Videos are informational and informative – worth every moment of one’s time.

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  5. from the thumbnail I thought it was a HUGE cookie—only somewhat disappointed by the reality

  6. All of the soda bread I’ve ever seen in the states includes raisins. Anyone want to weigh in on that?

  7. I have noticed that baking soda will also give your bread a darker colour. Who’s noticed the same? Baking powder on the other hand won’t do that?!?!?

  8. No more anything left in the supermarket… Have to bake regular bread. Maybe when people stop panic buying, I’ll try to get some wheat germ and wheat bran.

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