Christmas Soda Bread
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4.8
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Excellent
Christmas Soda Bread
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All the flavours of Christmas in one loaf (marzipan, vanilla, orange, mixed spice and dried fruit) - Christmas Soda Bread is quick and easy to make and so delicious spread with butter and even jam if you wish!
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Ingredients
- 180 ml milk
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 175 g spelt flour plain
- 175 g wholegrain spelt flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp mixed spice
- 100 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla sugar
- 35 g marzipan grated
- orange zest wash well with detergent first, grated, or zest of 2 clementines
- ½ tsp salt
- 40 g currants
- 40 g dried cherries chopped
- demerara sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 190⁰C.
- Prepare a baking tray a sheet or baking parchment and a scattering of flour.
- Stir the lemon juice into the milk and set aside to curdle.
- Sieve the flours, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and mixed spice into a large bowl.
- Then mix in the caster sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, marzipan, orange zest and dried fruit thoroughly.
- Add the curdled milk and mix in with a round bladed knife until a dough if formed (use your hands towards the end).
- Tip the dough out onto a floured work surface and shape into a dome (speed is important as the raising agents start working as soon as you add the milk).
- Place the dome onto the baking sheet, sprinkle on a good layer of Demerara sugar (patting down) and using a sharp knife cut a deep cross down into the dough.
- Place in the oven and bake for 30 - 35 minutes or until a hollow sound is heard when you knock on the underside of the loaf.
- Place on a wire rack to cook.
- Serve warm or cold with butter (and jam if liked) with a nice cuppa!
Notes
- Unless you have unwaxed oranges or clementines you must wash the wax off your citrus fruit as this is not meant for human consumption. I use a drop of washing up liquid, rub in well with a drop of warm water and then give it a scrub with my potato brush. I think I got this tip from Michael van Stratton on a radio show (LBC) many years ago!
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