Fruit soda bread: Follow the main recipe, replacing the malted-grains flour with a stoneground wholemeal flour. Add 1 tablespoon demerara sugar and 100g mixed dried fruit to the rubbed-in mixture ...

Wholemeal bread does not rise quite as much as a white loaf, and the texture is denser due to the bran in the flour inhibiting the effectiveness of the gluten. Adding a little strong white flour ...