Have you ever wanted to make your own Guinness brown bread? Save this handy recipe for the next time you have a free Sunday afternoon and want to get creative in the kitchen
Taken from the Irish Mammy Cooks cookbook, where inside Orla Drumgoole shares 100 recipes that taste of home, from beloved traybakes and brown bread to simple dinners the whole family will eat. It is built for real life cooking, with plenty of easy ways to keep the week running smoothly.
Orla explains: ” A Guinness brown loaf is more hearty than a standard brown bread, and it is still very simple. There are fewer ingredients, yet it delivers a punch in terms of flavour. It takes five minutes to put together – the perfect afternoon activity. It freezes beautifully too – slice and separate with parchment paper for best results.”
Makes two 900g loaves
110g butter
85g treacle
500ml Guinness
300ml buttermilk
900g wholemeal flour
85g oat bran
85g demerara sugar
1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda
Method
• Preheat the oven to 180°C fan. Line two 900g loaf tins with parchment paper.
• Place the butter and treacle in a pan over a low heat and allow to melt together. Then remove from the heat and add the Guinness. Stir to incorporate. Add the buttermilk too and mix again.
• Add the flour, oat bran and sugar to a large bowl, then sieve in the bicarbonate of soda.
• Add the wet mix to the dry ingredients and combine fully – I use a spatula, which is handy for getting every bit of the mix from the treacle pan, and from the bowl later!
• Divide the mixture between the two lined tins.
• Bake for 45 minutes, then remove from the oven and immediately turn the loaves out of the tins. The loaves should sound hollow when you tap the bottoms. If not hollow-sounding, pop them back into the tins and into the oven for another five to ten minutes – no longer though.
• When the bread is done, cover with a clean tea towel or muslin so you don’t get a hard crust.
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