Salt and Pepper Soda Bread

Soda bread doesn’t use yeast, so it is really quick and easy to make.

• 225g/8 oz wholemeal or buckwheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 25g/0.8 oz butter
• 150ml/5 fl oz milk (any kind)
• Teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• A few porridge oats

Preheat the oven to 400F/200C/Gas 6. Grease a baking tray.

Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, pepper and sugar. Rub in the butter. Add in the milk and mix together to form a soft dough. Shape into a round and pop onto the baking tray.

Brush the top with milk and sprinkle over a few oats. Bake for about 25 minutes until well risen and nicely browned.

Rachel is an English witch who has been walking the Pagan pathway for over thirty years.
A working wife and mother who has had over 30 books published (so far), some of them becoming best sellers.

Her passion is to learn, she loves to study and has done so from books, online resources, schools and wonderful mentors over the years and still continues to learn each and every day but has learnt the most from actually getting outside and doing it.

She likes to laugh…and eat cake…

Rachel gives talks to pagan groups and co-runs workshops with the Kitchen Witch Coven.

High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an Elder at the online Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft.

A regular columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine, she also contributes articles to several magazines such as Pagan Dawn and Witchcraft & Wicca. You will find her regular ramblings on her own personal blog and YouTube channel. Rachel is host for the Pagan Portals Podcast, produced by Moon Books Publishing.

​Her craft is a combination of old religion witchcraft, Wicca, hedge witchery, kitchen witchery and folk magic.

Her heart is that of an English Kitchen Witch.

​Rachel was added to the Watkins ‘100 spiritually influential List’ for 2023.

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