Stilton & Walnut Soda Bread

Steps Making Recipes Stilton & Walnut Soda Bread using 10 ingredients and 6 steps

Stilton & Walnut Soda Bread - Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties: Blue, which has had Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which has not. Both have been granted the status of a protected designation of origin (PDO) by the European Commission, which requires that only such cheese produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and. This is one of the best British cheeses, worthy of a sonnet. It is a quintessential English cheese, suitable not only for celebrations, but also to perk up everyday dishes. It is the only British cheese to have a Certification Trade Mark and an EU Protected Name.

Stilton is only made in three Counties in England… Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, and is is a protected cheese.

Stilton is protected by a Certification Trade Mark and EU Protected Designation of Origin (PDO).

You can have Stilton & Walnut Soda Bread using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients make Stilton & Walnut Soda Bread

1. You need 250 g wholemeal flour.
2. You need 100 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting.
3. You need 50 g pinhead oatmeal.
4. Prepare 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda.
5. You need 1 tsp salt.
6. You need 1 tsp sugar.
7. It's 1 large egg.
8. You need 300 ml buttermilk (if you can't find buttermilk, you can use 330ml of natural yoghurt. I like to use YEO Natural).
9. You need 100 g walnut pieces.
10. It's 200 g stilton, crumbled.

Stilton & Walnut Soda Bread instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. Place the flours, oatmeal, bicarb, sugar and salt into a large bowl and mix together. Add the walnuts and stilton and stir gently..
2. In a separate bowl, use a balloon whisk to beat the egg and buttermilk together..
3. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and pour in half the buttermilk/egg mixture. Using the fingers of one hand, draw the flour into the buttermilk mixture. Continue to add the buttermilk mixture until all the flour has been incorporated and you have a sticky dough. You may not need to use all of the buttermilk mixture, as different flours absorb less than others..
4. Tip the dough onto a floured surface, shape into a ball and then flatten slightly. Place onto a large baking tray lined with baking parchment. Use a sharp knife to mark the loaf into quarters, cutting deeping into the dough but not quite through the base. Dust the top of the loaf with flour. For best results, leave the bread on the baking tray for 30 minutes to allow the bicarb to activate before baking..
5. Bake for 30-35 minutes until the load is golden brown and sounds hollow when tapped on the base. You can carefully cut along one of the seams to see if the inside is cooked through; if not, put the loaf back in the oven for 5 minutes or so..
6. Transfer the soda bread to a wire rack and leave to cool completely..

Stilton & Walnut Soda Bread - Geronimo Stilton is the publisher of The Rodent's Gazette, Mouse Island's most famouse newspaper. He is Rattus Emeritus of Mousomorphic Literature and Neo-Ratonic Comparative Philosophy. Stilton enjoys collecting antique cheese rinds, playing golf, and telling stories to his nephew Benjamin. A quintessentially English blue cheese, Stilton is made exclusively in three counties: Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. The cheese has been referenced in many pieces of writing over the years, including by writer Daniel Defoe who referred to Stilton as being "English. Stilton's Place is based in, and subject to the laws of, the United States. We are neither cognizant of nor responsible for the laws in any other countries, districts, emirates, theocracies, principalities, directorates, or dictatorships. Thank you and good luck