What does a big fat very pregnant person do when her fridge is over run with beer that she can not consume? She makes beer bread of course! Between Mr. McCuerda’s no-knead bread recipe and my new found beer bread recipe, baking bread is really too easy to not do it. I made 2 loaves today, one for us to gobble up because our instant gratification urges are just to strong to deny ourselves the pleasure of fresh warm bread with butter, and one to freeze for later enjoyment. So here is the recipe, go make it now, because you know that you want it, and it will be the easiest thing you have ever done:
3 cups flour (I used 1½ white and 1½ whole wheat)
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
12 oz of delicious beer (or 16 if you use ½ wheat flour)
Mix, bake for 45 minutes in a 375 oven.
If you have an amazing, and I mean amazing imagination, you can add herbs, spices, and cheeses to your bread to make many different tasty loaves of easy self satisfying enjoyment. It is not the same kind of self satisfying enjoyment one gets from drinking a sweet delicious beer, but it is damn good. God, only 3 more weeks to go. 9 months is truly a long time to go with out the sweet taste of a Kasteel Bruin. Bottoms up.