{"id":2933,"slug":"scottish-wheat-bannock-bread","title":"Scottish Wheat Bannock Bread","description":"A recipe from Nova Scotia that is called both Scottish bannock and Irish soda bread.","ingredients_raw":["4 cups (950 ml) whole wheat flour","½ cup (120 ml) white granulated sugar","2 tsp baking soda","1 tsp salt","1½ cups (360 ml) buttermilk","4 tbsp butter, cut into pea-sized cubes"],"ingredients_norm":["whole wheat flour","white granulated sugar","baking soda","salt","buttermilk","butter"],"steps":["Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C)","Combine dry ingredients. Rub in butter until crumbly.","Mix in buttermilk to make a soft, workable dough. Knead dough briefly.","Make dough into a disc about 3 inches thick. Cut an X shape in dough with a knife (1 cm or so deep). Transfer to an oiled or parchment-lined baking sheet.","Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 50–70 minutes (depending on your oven) until a skewer stuck in comes out with no \"gooeyness\" on it","Let cool 5–10 minutes after taking from the oven, then break apart with your hands into serving-sized chunks."],"categories":["Bread recipes","Recipes for bread","Baking recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using baking soda","Recipes using white sugar","Recipes using buttermilk","Recipes using whole-wheat flour"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Scottish_Wheat_Bannock_Bread","source_ref":"4512570","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Scottish_Wheat_Bannock_Bread&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"fb373ca20ea846f9416c1c03fdbc09bca4cf57fb5cca4844b63e09654abe0995","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:19Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:19Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/scottish-wheat-bannock-bread"}