Here's a recipe that is sooooooo easy. So easy. If you want just the basics, it is only 5 ingredients.
Beer... in bread? WTF? Honestly, it doesn't taste like beer, but there is a certain yeasty/hoppy flavor. And while I used a very light beer (Lone Star Light), you can experiment with any beer. No, please dont' start to ask me about flavors cause I while I love beer, I have no knowledge of hops, malts, yeasts, grains, yada yada. I usually just use what is in my fridge.
I will include three versions, Cheesy Beer Bread, Sweet Beer Bread, and Basic Beer Bread. The options/add ins are infinite; it is up to you.
First:
The Basic Recipe (with no fuss)
All these recipes are for 1 8" loaf, though I often cut the amounts in half and end up with a smaller 8" loaf that isn't very tall but just as tasty.
3 cups AP flour
1 TBL baking powder
1 TBL sweetener (honey, sugar, brown sugar, agave)
1 tsp salt
12 ounces beer, preferably NOT flat
Mix dry ingredients first, then add beer. Stir, but don't over stir, and plop into a greased 8" loaf pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 45-60 minutes. Maybe 5-10 minutes more if it is not done when you stick a knife/toothpick in and it comes out still gooey.
Optional : At about 30 minutes, brush the top of the loaf with an egg wash to make it nice and pretty.
Second: The Sweet Beer Bread
3 cups AP flour
1 TBL baking powder
1/3 cup sweetener (honey, sugar, brown sugar, agave), I usually use brown suga' so I can sing with the Rolling Stones while I bake.
1 tsp salt
12 ounces beer, preferably NOT flat
Mix dry ingredients first, then add beer. Stir, but don't over stir, and plop into a greased 8" loaf pan.
Before you place in oven, top the dough with 1-2 TBL spoons of sugar. Bake at 375 degrees for 45-60 minutes, or until tester comes out clean of raw/gooey dough.
Cool on counter.
Finally, the recipe I made last night so I have photos!
The Cheesy Beer Bread
3 cups AP flour
1 TBL baking powder
1 TBL sweetener (honey, sugar, brown sugar, agave)
1 tsp salt
1/2 TBL dried herbs or 2 TBL FRESH chopped herbs. I used dill.
1 cup grated cheese- I used cheddar so the bread will have a bite
12 ounces beer, preferably NOT flat
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Mix the dry ingredients, including cheese, which I didn't show.
Pour in la cerveza!!!
Mix everything, But DON'T over mix!! You don't want tough bread! I was hesitant to add this photo cause it looks like vomit. OH well.
Plop into greased 8" pan.
45 minutes, at 375 degrees (It was still raw in the middle at 45 minutes so I timed it for another 15 minutes. It actually could have gone probably yet another 10 minutes or so after that...When I cut it, it was kinda gummy, but in a good way.)
yum. Now you have to let it cool...which I didn't and I savored every single bite.
And my second favorite part about Lonestar-the first being I like the taste-is this:
The puzzles on the caps! (alien hands, sorry mis manos were wet)
I hope you make this because like I said, in the basic form, it is only FIVE INGREDIENTS for BREAD!! how cool and delicious!
-tha angry teacher
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