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Recipe by Peter Ward
Peter Ward, founder of the Country Choice grocery in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, devised this recipe for his son, who missed homebaked bread while he was a student in Dublin. As with most students he had no experience and few utensils in his student-housing kitchen, but as Peter so rightly deduced, he knew that every Irish student would have a pint glass, which he's brought home from a pub, so he invented a recipe for the simplest bread in the world, one whose ingredients he could measure out with a pint glass.
Serves 6
Cooking time: 35 - 45 minutes
Ingredients
Pint glass coarse flourPint glass white flour
3/4 pint buttermilk
Enough salt to coat the bottom of a pint glass
Enough soda to coat the bottom of a pint glass
4T butter
*Note: If you use the same to measure the ingredients, note that the vessel in question is a 20-ounce imperial pint glass.
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 375°. Sprinkle 1 tsp. of the all-purpose flour over the centre of a baking sheet and set aside. Put 2 tsp. of the all-purpose flour into a small bowl and set aside. Meanwhile, put remaining all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl and mix well with your hands to combine. Add butter, breaking it up into small pieces with your fingers, and mix it into flour mixture until combined. Make a well in the centre of the flour–butter mixture and add buttermilk. Slowly incorporate buttermilk into flour mixture with your hands until a rough ball forms, then turn out onto a lightly floured surface and form into a neat ball (without kneading).
2. Transfer dough to centre of baking sheet and press gently to form a 7 1/2"-wide round. Using a sharp knife, slash a cross 1/2" deep across the entire top of the loaf and dust top of loaf with the reserved flour. Bake until bread is light golden and a tap on the bottom of the loaf sounds hollow, about 70 minutes. Wrap bread in a clean kitchen towel, prop against a windowsill, and allow to cool for about 1 hour.
Slice and serve at room temperature or toasted with a generous spread of country butter - simply delicious!
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