Kinsale's Irish Soda Bread

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 2 cups buttermilk 
• 2 tablespoons plus light
• 0.5 cup flour all-purpose
• 0.3 cup salad oil 
• 0.8 teaspoon salt 
• 2.5 cups flour whole-wheat

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• cake form

Directions

1. In a bowl, mix whole-wheat flour, 1/2 cup all-purpose flour, soda, and salt.
2. Add buttermilk, 1/3 cup oil, and molasses; stir until well moistened.
3. Rub a 9-inch cake pan with oil, then dust with all-purpose flour. Scrape the bread batter into the pan and spread level.
4. Bake in a 400 regular or convection oven until bread is well browned and just begins to pull from pan sides, 35 to 45 minutes.
5. Let cool in pan at least 5 minutes.
6. Cut loaf into wedges in pan or invert from pan, turn over, and cut into wedges.