How to make Guinness or Irish stout brown bread. This traditional Irish recipe is delicious and easy to do. You can use molasses if you can’t find treacle. Serve this up with a big slathering of Irish butter.

Barmbrack, Irish tea brack or in Gaelic, bairín breac (meaning speckled loaf) is a traditional sweetened bread commonly made around the Halloween season in Ireland. Many of the older traditional recipes use yeast, and are lighter in colour and texture than the bracks most people come across today. For this recipe I referenced many different sources, including my mother’s copy of All In The Cooking, first published in 1946 and famous Irish flour makers Odlums well established directions.