Irish Brown Bread (Wheaten Bread)

Came back from Ireland craving this! This is what I came up with after a ton of Internet research and some playing around. Serve with Irish butter.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
• Calories: 266 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 1 ¾ cups whole wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon molasses
• ⅓ cup wheat germ
• ½ teaspoon brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cornmeal
• ½ cup whole wheat pastry flour
• ⅔ cup oat bran
• ½ cup steel-cut instant oats

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a loaf pan with butter and dust with cornmeal.

Step 2

Whisk whole wheat flour, oat bran, whole wheat pastry flour, oats, wheat germ, baking soda, salt, baking powder, and brown sugar together in a large bowl.

Step 3

Whisk buttermilk, eggs, olive oil, and molasses together in a separate bowl. Add most of the buttermilk mixture to the flour mixture; mix with a spoon. Continue adding buttermilk mixture until batter is the consistency of oatmeal.

Step 4

Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan. Brush any of the remaining buttermilk mixture over the loaf.

Step 5

Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out mostly clean, about 1 hour. Invert onto a wire rack to cool.