Stir together the flour, soda, salt in a large bowl. Cut in the shortening/butter with a pastry blender until it looks like coarse meal. Add all of the wholemeal flour, stir, then add the ...

Line the base of a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment. Mix the flours and porridge with the sieved bread soda and salt. Stir these well so that the bread soda in particular is well mixed into the ...

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