Saturday, November 27, 2010

Beer Bread!!

This recipe is inspired by the thing that I love most in the world...beer :-)

So there is one rule, only one rule to this recipe.  You must follow it otherwise you will FAIL!!  and the bread will not taste as good.    The one rule, the one and only unbreakable rule: you must drink beer while you bake!

Time
Prep time: 10 minutes
Bake time: 45-50 minutes
Ready in: 1 hour

Servings
1 normal 9 x 5 loaf of bread

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 tablespoons of honey. A sweet honey
1 tablespoon of melted butter
1 typical bottle of beer.  Dundee's honey brown works the best but others will do!

Procedures
0.5 Preheat oven to 350 (175 degrees Celsius).
1. Combine all dry ingredients except the brown sugar first.  Mix very well with whisk or fork, add brown sugar and whisk.
2. Add beer.  This is a very important, in fact the most important ingredient of this recipe!!  Choose a sweeter, lighter beer.  Stouts = bad! Pale ales, ehh not the best either.  But I always don't spend too much money on beer unless you're gonna drink it!  Any lighter, sweeter beer will do but once again Dundee's honey brown tastes the best.
3.  Add the honey.  The honey is also very important here.  A sweeter honey such as sunflower, buckwheat works well.  I like orange blossom as a honey myself but is too strong for this recipe but works wonderfully in pound cake or angel food cake!
4.  Mix dough, will likely need to knead a bit with hands.  Just put some flour on those babies and get workin!
5. Put in a 9 x 5 loaf pan, pour melted butter over bread and stick bun in oven!
6. In 45-50 minutes it should be a little brown on the top, take it out, let it cool if you can stand it and enjoy!

*Goes well with, well, beer.

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