Wheaten Bread
Wheaten bread is the Ulster name for wholemeal soda bread, raised with bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk. It is nutty, dense and lightly sweet, traditionally baked as a round and cut into farls.
Honest Bread lists 8 bakers across the UK and Ireland known for wheaten bread, each baking from scratch with no additives. The Northern Irish name for brown soda bread.
Wheaten Bread bakers
Bread & Butters
Micro bakery in the Conwy Valley run by a self-taught baker, making naturally leavened bread over roughly 48 hours on a Haussler stone bake oven. Loaves are baked to order for Friday collection and supplied to local shops and coffee houses.
Bread and Banjo Bakery
Independent Ormeau Road bakery making sourdough loaves and other breads fresh on the premises daily using whole, fresh ingredients. Also known for its Guinness bread and cinnamon rolls.
Coghlans Artisan Bakery
An artisan bakery set in a former stable block at Barningham Park, baking bread with no preservatives or artificial additives from yeast, flour, water and salt. It also runs a tearoom and farm shop counter.
Ditty's Home Bakery
Third-generation craft bakery in Castledawson founded in 1963, making traditional Northern Irish breads, oatcakes and other bakes the traditional way using locally sourced ingredients. Recipient of an Irish Food Writers' Guild Good Food Award.
Doherty's Home Bakery
Family-run bakery that has baked bread, buns and cakes for the city for over eighty years, with several shops and cafes around Derry serving award-winning breads alongside soups and stews.
Hambleton Bakery
B Corp certified artisan bakery that handmakes bread daily using traditional techniques with no additives, sourcing most ingredients within 50 miles. Bread is baked at Stretton with shops across the East Midlands.
The Bakery Ebrington
In-house bakery near Ebrington Square where a team of bakers makes all bread, pastries and cakes on site each day, including a sourdough cob. Sandwiches are built from their own freshly baked bread.
The Yellow Door Bakery
Craft artisan bakery serving the foodservice sector across the region, baking sourdough, traditional Irish soda and wheaten breads, ciabatta and patisserie from untreated, unbleached flour. Member of the Real Bread Campaign and a multiple World Bread Awards.