How to make the perfect Guinness bread

The Doyle Collection hotels homemade Guinness Bread is a staple on the menu at all their restaurants. Served as a side or a light bite, this deliciously moorish bread has almost a cake-like texture and can be enjoyed as it is, or accompanied by smoked salmon for breakfast or perhaps Dorset Crab with apple and mayonnaise as a quick lunchtime bite. 

Ingredients:

• 310g Whole Wheat Flour
• 410g White Flour
• 140g Rolled Oats
• 1 teaspoon Table Salt
• 2 ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
• 2 tablespoons Butter
• 270g Milk
• 70g Black Treacle (or molasses)
• 140ml Guinness

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180c
• Mix together the whole wheat flour, white flour, oats, salt and baking soda in a large bowl.
• Use a pastry cutter to cut the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles small crumbs.
• Add the milk, black treacle (or molasses) and Guinness, and mix until well combined.
• Use cooking spray to coat 2 bread loaf pans, and pour the batter into the pans.
• Sprinkle a little more oatmeal on top.
• Bake at 180c for 45 minutes to an hour, until the centre is cooked through and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Recipe by Byron Moussouris, The Bloomsbury Executive Head Chef.

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