Cook Time: 45 mins - 1 hour
What you need
- 350g/12oz Odlums Coarse Wholemeal
- 125g/4oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 teaspoon Shamrock Bread Soda, sieved
- 100g packet Shamrock Chopped Walnuts
- 25g/1 oz Sesame Seeds
- 25g/1 oz Sunflower Seeds
- 25g/1 oz Pumpkin Seeds
- 25g/1 oz Poppy Seeds
- 1 tablespoon Shamrock Demerara Brown Sugar
- 2 dessertspoons Oil
- 300ml/½pt Milk
- 125g Yoghurt (Natural or Hazelnut)

Recipe Steps
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin.
- Put wholemeal, cream flour, salt, sieved bread soda, walnuts, seeds and sugar into a mixing bowl and mix well together.
- In a jug combine the oil, milk and yoghurt together and add to the dry ingredients. Stir until well blended.
- Transfer to the prepared tin and bake for 45 mins – 1 hour. Bread is baked when tapped underneath and it has a hollow sound.
- Wrap in a clean tea towel and allow to cool. Bread cuts better if left until the next day.
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