Healthy Holidays

Brown Bread
Healthy Holiday Recipe

This is a traditional Irish brown bread. The recipe originates from a restaurant, The Cobblestone Restaurant, on one of Galway's oldest streets in the heart of the city near the River Corrib.

Ingredients:
4 cups whole-wheat flour
1/2 cup bran
4 teaspoons packed brown sugar
2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups buttermilk
4 teaspoons olive oil
One egg

Directions:
Preheat oven to 300-degrees.

Grease two 1/2-pound loaf pans or one one-pound loaf pan; set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, bran, brown sugar, baking soda and salt; mix well.

Add buttermilk, oil, and egg; quickly mix with wooden soon until well blended. Quick mixing gives it a light consistency.

Bring spoon high while mixing to let air into the batter. Mixture should have consistency of thick cake batter. If batter is too thick, add more buttermilk, 1-tablesoon at a time.

Pour into prepared loaf pans(s) and bake one hour.

Recipe makes two 1/2-pound loaves of Brown Bread or one, 1-pound loaf.