More Ma - or Ma More??

I remember Youma loaf from my childhood, right down on the south coast. It was the only malt loaf available at that time and I used to love it - loads of butter on each thick gooey slice, a perfect teatime treat!

Thanks for the recipe,

We can't get self-raising flour here, so has anyone an idea as to how much baking soda I should add to plain flour?

I am going to make this right now, I have all the ingredients in and I just fancy a bit of baking!

I’m Irish and always thought that barm brack was made with yeast and was a light, fruit bread en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmbrack
The other type was called tea brack and has a much heavier, denser texture. It seems both can now be called barm brack but recipe and result would be different.

Picture didn't come through, sorry.

Youma Loaf and Barm Brack

www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/recipes/traditional-irish-barmbrack-1.2842588

Now all I want to know is what is a boiling broonie?

My great, great grandfather, a baker, won a very large trophy for his Youma Fruit Loaf in 1927. He was from Claypole in Nottinghamshire but received the award in Leeds.

Love that website! All the old adverts. Great!

Recipe sounds good. Sunday teatime comes to mind.

Sorry-no, just googled it and that's Ma Made. The Soreen fruit/malt loaf is a good substitute.

Wasn't Ma More a large tin of the makings for marmalade??

I know More Ma. It originated from the advertisement. The child ate the fruit malt loaf and came back to their mother and said can I have some more ma? And that is how it got the nick name more ma.

Glad the Youma bread recipe has been well received. I have not tried spices in the bread as I think it is so nice the way it is. We used to put malt extract into it - Virol and then barley malt extract when Virol became unobtainable. It was ok but the original is better in our opinion.

Incidentally, I obtained the recipe from my mother who was very independent, prbably as a resultof her Mum dying in the 1918 flu epidemic. She would be delighted to know that the recipe is still going.

I am sure this has been on here before but does anyone have the recipe for Barn Brack cooked in a microwave? I used to make it years ago and it was delicious.

I'll try that one - it looks good. Boiling broonie is a firm favourite now - I've passed it on to a few people in the last year or so.

If I hadn't already had a boiling broonie on the go, I'd make that one right away. So easy!
Thanks rippip. Have you ever put spices in it?

It looks interesting and relatively simple to make. Might give it a try. Thank you.

Wonderful recipe!

I believe this is from a 1930’s recipe competition run by Hovis. Reputedly it does not go stale if you can resist it that long.

This is the recipe:

Makes One loaf
Serves 12 (Twelve slices)

Ingredients

·2 tbsp Syrup
·2 Eggs
·1lb Self Raising Flour
·¼lb Caster Sugar (other sugars are acceptable to taste.)
·½lb Sultanas
·½ pint Milk
·Pinch of Salt

Method

1.Place all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well together;
2.Spoon into a prepared loaf tin;
3.Place in the middle of the oven at gas mark 5, 190ºC for half an hour and then reduce to gas mark 3, 160/170 ºC for half an hour;
4.To confirm baked to perfection, remove from tin and tap base – it should sound hollow;
5.Remove paper liner (where used) and place on a cooling rack; and
6.When cool serve with butter if desired.

Thanks for the help - at least I'm not totally ga ga"! You have helped me to get to the follwoing
link www.hatads.org.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=30250
which shows an advert for You Ma. I tried emailing the website to see if they knew how I might take the research further but the emial bounced back.

That's right - it was a Youma loaf! I've just phoned my 84-year-old sister-in-law, who remembers it well. We're in Fife so maybe it was just a Scottish thing? She said it had a soft crust all the way round and would be buttered thickly and served with a !

Perhaps that was a Scottish brand.

Oh yes - I remember yoma (?) bread from my Aberdeenshire days, toasted and buttered liberally. Sheer heaven! I also remember being in the baker's shop and one being dropped accidentally in a pail of water when the shelves were being cleaned. Thanks for making me dredge up that old memory of sixty years ago.

I remember that one, Annobel.

I think I remember one called Youma, though I don't know if that was the spelling.