Nothing warms the belly like a slice of freshly baked buttermilk bread. This traditional buttermilk bread recipe uses both yeast and baking soda. Recipes makes two loaves of baking soda buttermilk bread.
Prep Time: 2 hours
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup shortening
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 2-1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
- 5-1/2 cups bread flour, about
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Preparation:
- In large bowl, mix together shortening, sugar, and salt.
- Add buttermilk, water, and yeast. Stir until yeast is dissolved.
- Mix in 3 cups of flour.
- Mix in baking soda.
- Mix in enough flour to make a stiff dough.
- Turn dough out onto floured board. Knead for about 8 minutes, adding more flour, a tablespoon at a time, as needed.
- Put dough in greased bowl and turn over so that the top of dough is greased. Cover and let rise in warm place for 1 hour or until double in size.
- Punch down dough. Turn out onto floured board and knead for about 5 minutes.
- Form dough into 2 bread loaves and place in greased loaf pans. Cover and let rise for about 30 minutes or until double in size.
- Brush dough top with egg white, if glossy look is desired.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes or until brown and bread sounds hollow when you tap on the top.
- Remove loaves from oven and turn out onto rack. Let cool.
