Beer Bread - anyone know a recipe?

lindadykes

I am looking for a recipre for a soda type bread that incorporates beer, preferably guiness.

I have found some recipes on the Internet which basically suggest mixing self raising flour with the beer and sugar, but the thing is these all seem to incorporate quite a lot of sugar - 3 tablespoons!, - won't that taste sweet? I want to make it to serve with potted seafood, so don't fancy a sweet tasting bread.

Do you think it would work just leaving out the sugar

AliBow

I know theres a recipe for this in one of the jamie oliver books I've got. I'll dig it out for you tomorrow if noone beats me to it.

soappie

There's one on the internet here:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Guinness-Bread/Detail.aspx

champys

I have one too, not a sugary one, but it is a yeast bread instead of a soda bread. Ingredients as follows:

1 cup dark stout
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp sunflower oil
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp black treacle
2 cups white bread flour
1 1/2 cups wholemeal bread flour
1/2 teaspoon yeast (the active dry stuff)

add 3 tsp Dijon mustard during last kneading

Maybe that will work?

AliBow

Ok, the jamie oliver one is...

1oz fresh yeast or 3/4 oz dried yeast
1oz honey or sugar
1/2 pint tepid water
1/2 pint your favourite beer
1lb strong flour
1lb of semolina flour (or just plain if you can't get semolina)
1oz salt

Dissolve the yeast and honey/sugar in the beer.

After that you just make it as you would normal bread. Bake it for 20 -25 minutes at 225c or gas 7.

Gingernutmeg

I'm not sure how much flour you're using, but if it's a pound-ish, then three tablespoons of sugar doesn't sound *that* much, really. Remember that in soda bread the sugar goes some way towards balancing out the 'salt' from the bicarb. I'd have a go, try it and then if it is too sweet, knock the sugar down, or try a less 'sweet' tasting sugar like a dark muscovado one, so that you get more of a treacly taste than a straight sugar flavour - that would be nice with Guiness. Soda bread is fairly quick to make and fairly cheap (apart from the beer lol) so it's not a huge expense to have a test run It's good fun taste testing too