Soda Bread Recipe

500 gms Flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
250 ml Buttermilk / Whey / Yoghurt

Pre-heat the oven to 220 centigrade.

Mix together the dry ingredients Very quickly mix in the liquid by hand. (The quicker these are combined the lighter the bread will be.) Put the dough onto a well floured surface and shape it into a round. Put onto a greased baking sheet and bake for 40 minutes.
The bread will not rise as far as yeast risen bread and will be more cake-like in texture, but it will taste delicious and can made in a wink of an eye, unlike yeast risen breads.
You can make this bread with white flour or with wholemeal flour, or some combination of both. It is also possible to substitute oats for part of the recipe, and add raisins or currents to make a fruit bread, or nuts or seeds. This bread can be eaten with cheese, or butter, or jam or whatevers.
Also, to perfect your bread making. Buy a terracotta tile 30cm square. Wash it and put this into the bottom of the oven to bake your bread on. Buy a terracotta plant pot to the maximum diameter that your oven will hold. Place the tile in the oven, invert the plant pot on top, and heat the oven to the the required temperature. Leave the oven for 10 minutes after the temperature has been reached. Remove the flour pot, then place the bread directly onto the tile, cover the bread with the inverted pot and bake for 40 minutes. The tile and pot act as heat sinks. The tile bakes the bread from below up, and the pot retains the evaporating moisture, mimicking more closely a traditional wood oven for baking.