Ingredients:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 1 cup whole-wheat graham flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 4 tablespoons cold butter, cut in small pieces
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Whisk together the flours, soda, salt, baking powder in a large bowl. With your fingertips blend in butter until it resembles small peas. Add buttermilk all at once. Stir with a fork or your hands until mixture holds together.
2. In the bowl, pat the dough into a ball. Lift out dough to a flour covered surface. Knead one or two times. Don’t handle too much or bread will be tough. Form into a dome shaped loaf about 7 inches in diameter. Transfer to lined sheet.
3. Dust lightly with flour and cut a ¾ inch deep cross in the top, reaching almost all the way to the edges. (This, they believed, was so the bad spirits could escape.) Bake, rotating half way through, until deep golden brown, about one hour and 20 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.
Note: Graham flour is coarser than most whole wheat flour. If you use whole wheat flour, substitute one half cup wheat bran for one half cup of the all-purpose flour. If you are using flour you grind, then just use 4 cups.
