Thanks for the recipe - sorry I didn't reply sooner but only just spotted your post.
Beer Bread
(not my words but taken from
http://breadnet.net/nanas-beer.html
My Nana gave me this...Im not a great cook at all (I've even been known to burn water), but this is simple and quite possibly the best bread I've ever had.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of melted butter
3 cups of self rising flour
1/2 cup of white sugar
1 12oz can of beer
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. mix the first three ingredients in a bowl. Pour into pan and bake at 350 for 50 min. After 50 min, take bread out and using a pastry brush spread the melted butter over the top. Then put in oven and bake at 350 for 5 more min. And there you go...this is such a simple recipe :)
Just spotted this alternative recipe - quite fancy trying this one if I can persuade David to give up some of his beer!!!!
Delicious, flavourful alternative to ciabatta – with all the goodness of wholemeal flour.
No need to spend all day making it either – the yeast in the beer is all you need. Serves 4
Ingredients:
400g wholemeal flour
60g oats
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp runny honey
340ml Tanglefoot ale
Method:
Take a 455g loaf tin and grease well with vegetable oil. Pre-heat oven to 180ºC / Gas mark 4 Mix the flour, oats, baking powder and salt together in a large mixing bowl and stir in the runny honey and beer to make a heavy wet dough.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth the surface (if desired you can sprinkle the top with extra oats).
Bake it for 40 to 50 mins until golden brown (you will know it is ready if a skewer comes out clean when inserted in the bread). Turn out and leave to cool on a wire rack.
