Whole Wheat Oat Soda Bread
INGREDIENTS
1 cup rolled oats
1 ½ cup boiling water
(combine oats and water and let sit for 20 to 30 minutes until cooled to room temperature)
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 ½ tablespoons baking powder
½ cup white sugar
1 ½ teaspoon salt
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
1 egg, lightly beaten
3 cups buttermilk
5/8 cup butter, melted
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 2-9 inch cake pans.
Combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baking soda. Blend egg and buttermilk together, and add buttermilk mixture and oat mixture all at once to the flour mixture. Mix just until moistened. Stir in butter. Pour into prepared pan.
Bake for ~30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
I have not cooked this in a dutch oven, but do it in a cast iron skillet. Really a moist dense bread. Perfection with apple butter.