Laura's Scrumptious Wheat-Free Soda Bread |
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 40 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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My friend, Laura, is not eating grain for Lent, but wanted something 'bread-y'. So she made up this recipe: Scrumptious soda bread, with NO GRAIN! Light, fluffy, a bit sweet, but not cake-y, at all. Much better than the stuff made with wheat, actually. Ingredients:
2 cups chestnut flour |
1 cup almond meal |
1/2 cup arrowroot |
1/4 cup sugar |
1 teaspoon salt |
1 teaspoon baking powder |
1/3 cup butter |
1 cup currants |
1 1/3 cups buttermilk |
1 egg |
1 teaspoon baking soda |
1 tablespoon caraway seed (optional) |
1 egg yolk (optional) |
1 tablespoon cream (optional) |
Directions:
1. Grease small casserole (probably 9x11, I didn't measure).
2. Mix chestnut flour, almond meal, arrowroot powder, sugar, salt, & baking powder.
3. Cut butter into flour mixture with pastry cutter or 2 knives.
4. Add currants & stir to coat them. Add caraway seeds, if desired.
5. Combine buttermilk, egg, & baking soda, and stir into dry mixture, just to combine.
6. Pour dough into casserole.
7. Brush top with egg yolk or cream.
8. Bake 30 minutes, or till knife comes out clean.
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