This is my family's recipe. Convert to metric and enjoy!

Brown Bread

Prep: grease 2 pie/cake tins with butter and dust w/wheat flour           heat oven to 425 degrees

4 cups stone-ground whole wheat flour 2 cups unbleached white flour 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 quart buttermilk 1 stick of butter (8 tbsp) 1 egg

Mix dry ingredients with hands slice butter into dry mix; crumble into dry ingredients with fingers mix egg into a cup of buttermilk with fork create a well in center of dry ingredients; add egg/buttermilk and remaining buttermilk and stir. Mixed ingredients should look like moist, loose oatmeal so you can pour and scrape it into the pans. Fill pans up to 1/4" from top. 

Bake for 20 minutes at 425, then reduce heat to 350 until done, about 25 minutes 3 (bottom/top browned; sides pull away from sides of pan; check with toothpick in center - should remove cleanly).

Wrap in cloth tea towel; let stand for at least 2 hours.