Do not confuse wholemeal flour with wheatmeal flour or brown flour, both of which contain some bran and germ, but are generally paler.

Both Irish soda bread and Irish brown bread are quick breads — meaning they're not yeasted — and depend on baking soda for leavening. What separates the two is the type of flour used.

A baker who omitted to mix white bread flour with brown flour, resulting in a bakery losing more than 11 000 loaves of bread, will not lose his job after his employer initially fired him.

Cut a large square of parchment the size to place on top of a baking tray. Put the brown flour and porridge oats into a large bowl and stir them together. Sieve the white flour, bread soda and ...

Preheat your oven to 180ºC/gas mark 4. Put 12 bun cases into a bun tin. Put the brown flour into a bowl and then put the self-raising flour, the cinnamon and the baking powder into a sieve.

Do not confuse wholemeal flour with wheatmeal flour or brown flour, both of which contain some bran and germ, but are generally paler.