Easy peasy oaty bread

I absolutely adore bread, sourdough, soda, multiseed,batch. Bread with lashings of butter or big hunks of cheese and pickle or just plain jam is a winner winner chicken dinner for me. I remember coming home form primary school and to keep us going till supper mum would give us freshly baked homemade bread with chocolate spread hmmmmmmm.

Unfortunately bread does not like me, for two reasons. Number one is that if i eat too much wheat i am in a world of pain for several days and number two i am absolutely rubbish at baking bread. However this is all about to change because i have come across a life changing bread recipe from Valerie O'Connors latest Bread on the Table book. Her Easy Oat Bread could not be simpler and tastes amazing. It is so moist, keeps for up to a week and tastes fab. It is wheat free and if you use gluten free oats then its gluten free. I urge you to try this and can assure you you wont be disappointed.

Easy Oat Bread
Makes one 2lb loaf

175g porridge oats
175g pinhead oatmeal
120g oat bran
1 1/2 tsp bread soda sieved
1  tsp salt
600ml buttermilk
1 egg

Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius

Combine all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl and mix well making sure theres no dry lumps. leave the mixture to stand for 30 minutes while preheating the oven.
Oil the loaf tin and tip the mixture into it, sprinkle some oats on top for a nice finish.
Bake for approx 1 and 1/2 hours and allow to cool completely before cutting (if you can resist.... i could'nt).