Irish Brown Bread

Ingredients:

4 cups whole-wheat flour

1/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

4 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoons baking soda

3 tablespoons melted butter

1 egg

2 cups buttermilk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. Mix dry ingredients together. In a separate bowl, mix buttermilk, butter and egg. Add to dry ingredients. Knead gently and pat into a 7 rounds loaf. Cut a cross about 1/4 deep across the top. Place on a greased baking pan. Bake about an hour, or until toothpick comes out clean.

This is a very heavy, but tasty and easy to make bread that will impress your friends. It's the traditional Irish bread.

Thanks to my Auntie Vera for these two authentic Irish bread recipes.