Soda bread pastry flour (made from soft wheat), which has lower levels of gluten than a bread flour. In some recipes, the buttermilk is replaced by live yogurt or even stout. Because the leavening action starts immediately (compared to the time taken for yeast bread to rise), bakers recommend the minimum amount of mixing of the ingredients before baking; the dough should not be kneaded. Various forms of soda bread are popular throughout Ireland. Soda breads are made using wholemeal, white flour, or both. In Ulster, the wholemeal variety is usually known as "wheaten bread" and is normally sweetened, while the term
Bost's Bread "The Best Taste You Ever Toasted", and "Baked Slow to Sell Fast" became bywords and embedded into the cultural slang-speak of the area where Bost's Bread was sold. In the late 1970s the Bost's Bakery was sold to Wonder Bread, which operated the Bakery for a decade, adding its staple "Wonder Bread", Twinkies, frosted cupcakes and other confections to the product line alongside the bread products. In the late 1980s the parent company of Bost's and Wonder Bread shut down the bakery, ending a tasty chapter in the history of Shelby and Cleveland County, North Carolina. Wonder Bread and Hostess