Ingredients: 125g Strong White Flour 1 teaspoon breadsoda 1 teaspoon salt 450g Extra Course Wholemeal Flour 100g Treacle 300ml buttermilk 125ml Guinness Handful of porridge Oats
Method Preheat the oven to 180 Line a loaf tin with parchment paper. Sieve the strong white flour, breadsoda and salt into a bowl. Add the wholemeal flour and mix. make a well in the centre and add the Guinness and the buttermilk and treacle mix. mix gently. You will have a very wet mix but that is fine. Scatter the top with porridge oats. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes at 180 and then turn down oven to 170 and bake for a further 30 minutes. Remove it from the tin and return it to the oven for the last 5 minutes.
In order to make the treacle more viscous and therefore actually disperse though the mix I add it to the buttermilk and warm them for about a minute or two in the microwave and then stir vigorously.