Name: Black treacle & oat soda bread with pickled cucumbers, smoked salmon & homemade butter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 400g self raising flour plus extra for dusting; 50g porridge oats plus extra for sprinkling; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 200ml buttermilk; 3 tbsp black treacle; 1 cucumber peeled into ribbons with a potato peeler; 2 tbsp white wine vinegar; 1 tbsp sugar; small pack of dill chopped; 300ml double cream; 120g smoked salmon and lemon wedges

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Black treacle & oat soda bread with pickled cucumbers, smoked salmon & homemade butter

Black treacle & oat soda bread with pickled cucumbers, smoked salmon & homemade butter

Cassie Best

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Serves 6

Easy

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 20 mins

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Serve up a treat for lunch, with fresh soda bread, smoked salmon, pickles and homemade butter (yes, homemade). Sounds tricky? It takes just 30 minutes to make

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Ingredients

Nutrition

Units:

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400g self raising flour

plus extra for dusting
50g porridge oats

plus extra for sprinkling
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
200ml buttermilk
3 tbsp black treacle

For the pickled cucumbers

1 cucumber

peeled into ribbons with a potato peeler
2 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 tbsp sugar
small pack of dill

chopped

For the butter

300ml double cream

To serve

120g smoked salmon

and lemon wedges

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal608
fat29g
saturates16g
carbs66g
sugars10g
fibre4g
protein18g
salt3.5g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and put a baking sheet on the middle shelf. Mix the dry ingredients for the bread with 1 tsp salt. In a jug, mix together the buttermilk and treacle, and add enough water to make up the liquid to 300ml. Mix the wet and dry ingredients together to make a soft dough. If it’s very sticky, flour your hands and shape into a round (it doesn’t need to be neat). Remove the hot tray from the oven, dust with flour and put the bread on it, squashing it down a little. Use a knife to cut deep indentations in the dough, crossing in the middle to create six triangular pieces. Put in the oven and bake for 20 mins.
step 2

Meanwhile, combine all of the ingredients for the pickle with ½ tsp salt and set aside.
step 3

To make the butter, tip the cream into a bowl and beat with an electric hand whisk for 5 mins until it collapses and splits into butterfat and buttermilk. Keep going until the butterfat starts to clump together, then drain into a sieve over a bowl. Squeeze as much liquid from the butterfat as possible, wrap it in baking parchment and chill until you’re ready to serve. Save the buttermilk for another recipe (or if you have more time, make the butter first, then use the buttermilk to make the bread). To serve, unwrap the butter and sprinkle it with sea salt. Serve with the bread, pickled cucumbers, salmon and lemon.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2018

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