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Wheaten Bread

In short

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.

8 bakers
7 towns
Who bakes it

Wheaten Bread bakers

Trefriw · Conwy ✓ Publicly sourced

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.

SourdoughWholemealWheaten Bread
Belfast · County Antrim ✓ Publicly sourced

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.

SourdoughSoda BreadWheaten Bread
Barningham · County Durham ✓ Publicly sourced

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.

WholemealWheaten Bread
Castledawson · County Londonderry ✓ Publicly sourced

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.

Soda BreadWheaten BreadBatch Loaf
Derry/Londonderry · County Londonderry ✓ Publicly sourced

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.

Soda BreadWheaten BreadBatch Loaf
Exton · Rutland ✓ Publicly sourced

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.

SourdoughRye BreadWholemealWheaten Bread
Derry/Londonderry · County Londonderry ✓ Publicly sourced

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.

SourdoughWheaten BreadSoda Bread
Portadown · County Armagh ✓ Publicly sourced

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.

SourdoughSoda BreadWheaten BreadCiabatta
Answer engine

Wheaten Bread, answered

What is 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.
Where can I buy real wheaten bread in the UK or Ireland?
Honest Bread lists 8 scratch bakers known for wheaten bread. Use the map and town links above to find one near you. Every bakery here bakes from scratch on its own premises.
How do I know it is the real thing?
A real loaf is mixed and baked on the premises from honest ingredients, not finished from frozen or propped up with additives. Bakeries on Honest Bread meet that standard, and each listing shows whether it is baker-signed or publicly sourced.