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 sound when you knock ... While soda bread often has raisins or caraway seeds, brown bread is more often ...

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 ...