Sprinkle some sunflower or sesame seeds on the top. Bake for 60 minutes approx, or until the bread is nice and crusty and sounds hollow when tapped. Cool on a wire rack. Preheat oven to 200˚C.

A finished loaf of this Irish bread will be dark brown with a firm crust and will have a hollow ... While soda bread often has raisins or caraway seeds, brown bread is more often made without mix-ins.

Grease the bread tins with sunflower oil ... Put the dough into the greased tin and sprinkle it with sesame seeds if you like. Put the tin in a warm place — somewhere close to the cooker ...

Mix the flours, cocoa, activated charcoal (if using), seeds, yeast and salt in a large bowl. Give your jug of dark liquid another ... in which case it will be cowpat brown. Cover with cling ...