Recipe: Icelandic Three Grain Brown Bread

Icelandic Three Grain Brown Bread
Source: Cookbook Digest, Sept/Oct 1993
Makes 2 loaves

1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup dark rye flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
4 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 cups buttermilk

This soda bread recipe comes from an Icelandic farmhouse. It's dark,delicious, and full of wholesome grains. It's also excellent toasted.

Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans. In a large bowl, cream together the brown sugar and butter. Mix the rolled oats, rye flour, whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, salt, and baking soda together in another bowl, then add the creamed mixture along with the buttermilk. Mix until well blended. Divide the mixture between the two pans and smooth the tops. Bake 1 hour or until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Turn out of pans and cool on racks.