Sultana Soda Bread

I got this soda bread recipe from the New book by the fantastic Jack Monroe(www.agirlcalledjack.com) I added sultanas and cinnamon to the basic bread recipe.

Ingredients (makes 1 loaf)
400g self raising flour
300ml semi skimmed milk
2 tsp lemon juice
1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
80g sultanas
1/2 tsp cinnamon

* heat the oven to 180C
* add the lemon juice to the milk and leave for a few minutes to curdle
* weigh the flour and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl, mix together well the stir in the sultanas and cinnamon
* make a well in the centre of the flour and pour in most of the milk
* get your hands in the bowl and mix the milk into the flour to form a soft sticky dough
* tip the dough onto a floured surface and gently knead then roughly shape into a cylinder and place in a greased loaf tin
* bake for 40 minutes. The finished loaf should sound hollow when you knock on the base

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Got this recipe from the website of the wonderful Jack Monroe. If you've not come across her yet I really urge you to check out her website. This recipe is from her series recreating ready meals on a budget and is fab!

I'd never made pastry before. For some reason I was under the impression that it's really hard to get right, but this took under 5 minutes and turned out really well. I plan to make some more - this time with nutella filling and cocoa powder in the icing.