Garvey's Traditional Organic Irish Brown Bread Mix, 16-Ounce Packages

I love this bread and bake it every week. It is incredibly easy, just put the mix in a bowl, add milk and bake for half an hour. I modify the recipe a little using non-fat milk instead of buttermilk, it is probably slightly less tasty but at least I always have it in the fridge. Sometimes I add some unflavored greek yoghurt as well. Also I add a 1/4 cup quaker oatmeal to the mix and am considering trying it with added wheatbran as well. These create a little more texture and add more fiber. It is pretty common to add oatmeal to this bread in Ireland (at least with the home made recipes - my dad and the neighbors).I try to avoid sugar and white flour; this bread does not contain either of these. This makes it much healthier than most breads you buy in the supermarket. I grew up in Ireland and my father used to bake fresh wheaten bread for us every week. This mix is great, although not quite as good as in Ireland. It is delicious toasted with butter (try Kerry Gold from Trader Joes) and jam.

The bread was easy to make, tasted good but a little bland I should have added a little sugar I think it would have been better

Dough was really sticky, but the results were so satisfying! The bread was delicious and didn’t even last for a picture! I will buy more.

This product is reasonably easy to make but it is not as easy as similar products available in Ireland (example: Odlums Brown Bread Mix).It also does not have the texture of the Irish made product. Garvey's product uses finely ground flour while Brown Bread in Ireland uses a coarse ground whole wheat flour, giving the final product a "nutty" or "chewable" texture. I was able to reproduce this texture to some extent by adding some whole wheat bran to the mixture when making the bread.Also, I was surprised that I had to obtain buttermilk to add to the mix. This is a requirement when making brown bread from scratch (which I have done) but this is not needed in, for example, Odlums Brown Bread Mix where water is the only ingredient needed.There doesn't seem to be any great advantage in buying Garvey's product over buying ingredients in any grocery store and using any commonly available recipe.

Basically inedible. Made according to recipe. Used powered buttermilk which I tasted separately to make sure that's not the source of the nauseating "ick" smell/taste.[I've made soda bread for years, I know the taste of buttermilk baked bread. It does not smell//taste "icky". ]As to the intense briny level of salt... Because I normally use my own blend of flours and grains I know one has to take into account the sodium level that even fresh buttermilk has when adding salt. You can't use the same ratio of salt/dry ingredients that apply in making yeast bread. Seems the maker of this mix isn't aware of this. And/Or there is something seriously wrong with this batch, because it also failed to rise despite following the directions, and that seems hard to account for.I suggest others avoid making the same costly decision to buy this because like me they can't get the flours and grains they're used to using for baking bread at home as usual. Just settle for buying already baked bread somewhere until it's possible to purchase the basic ingredients again. It'll be a LOT less expensive, and OK it won't taste like your own bread, but you'll actually be able to eat it. Not even the squirrels or the raccoons were prepared to eat this stuff.

I couldn’t find brown bread in the best grocery store near DC. The online flour king was out of stock on Irish flour. So I ordered this and loved it so much I ordered more. And the seller sent me an extra box as a gift! Super!

Garvey's makes irish bread easy. The ingredients are simple: just wheat flour, baking soda and salt to which you need to add 1 1/2 cups fresh buttermilk which will make it rise while baking. Although the ingredients are so simple, I prefer to use the Garvey's mix for speed as the baking soda will be the correct proportion and evenly distributed saving a step of sifting together. Garvey's flour is quality and I don't think that I know of any organic flours that are higher quality to me. I like to bake mine on parchment paper so it just pops out easily You can add things to dress it up which is what I think some of the other reviewers are complaining about - missing the raisins, caraway and orange rind or whatever you want to dress it up. I think I prefer Garveys Traditional Organic Irish Bread Mix that is not brown but that is my own preference. This brown bread is the color of typical wheat bread.

very good, but not like the bread in Irelandneeds to have more course texture!!