Irish Soda Bread with Barley Flour

Irish Soda Bread made with Barley Flour

MaMa keeps telling me that I'll need to wear green on Saturday or I'll get pinched.  I don't quite understand, but she tells me it has something to do with St. Patrick's Day.  So to get ready for the big pinch-fest, we thought we'd make a loaf of Irish Soda Bread with our Barley Flour.

Ingredients for Irish Soda Bread:

3 c Joseph's Grainery Barley Flour
1 Tbs baking powder
1/3 c sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 egg
2 c buttermilk (need a  buttermilk substitue?)
1/4 c unsalted butter, melted

Directions:  Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.  Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray.  In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda.  Beat the egg and buttermilk together and add to the flour mixture.  Stir by hand until just combined.  Stir in the melted butter last and pour into the prepared pan.  Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean.  Cool on a wire rack.

Thanks to Country Momma Cooks, where we originally found this recipe and adapted it to our whole grain version.