Mam's Soda Bread
Shared by Josephine · 30 October 2026
The story behind the recipe
This soda bread is my Mam's favourite thing to bake she is now 92 and still making it every week and its delicious. She doesnt weight any of the ingredients she knows it so well. Dad use to buy 4 stone bag of flour when we were school age and shop bought bread was never in the house. She reared 8 children and this is something we all love to eat even now when visiting her and she loves to have it ready for any visitors that call. Sometimes she may have to bake a few times in the week as it doesnt last very long. When we were small we helped in the making of the bread I remember flour everywhere and mam would always sing when she was making the bread. She passed the skill of this bread making down to me and I make it just the way she does (I had to weigh the ingredients until I got the hang of it) now just like my mam I dont have to weigh the ingredients anymore thanks to my mam. We have a joke in our family if the bread ever got burnt we would say....there is chololate on it!
- Josephine
Ingredients
450g Self Raising Flour Pinch of Salt 350ml Buttermilk
Method
1. Preheat the oven 200oC. 2. Place the baking tray in the oven. 3. Put flour and salt into a bowl and mix together with a wooden spoon. 4. Add the buttermilk and mix until it forms into a soft dough. 5. Remove the dough from the bowl and place on a floured surface, and knead slightly, shape into a circle. 6. Remove the heated baking tray from the oven and grease it and sprinkle a little flour on it. 7. Place the circle dough onto the heated tray and using a knife cut a cross on top of it. 8. Bake for 30 minutes in the oven. 9. Serve with a spread of butter and a hot mug of tea and over a friendly chat!
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