My Bread Secret Is Also a Beer Secret
“My bread secret is a bread so simple and fantastic that I can make it when I’m drunk.
1. Buy a six pack of whatever beer you so choose to imbibe.
2. Drink two of the beers. Give three to your boyfriend and/or whatever roommates are home.
3. Mix remaining bottle of beer with three cups of flour, three tablespoons of sugar, one tablespoon of baking powder and one teaspoon of salt.
4. Remember that you were supposed to preheat the oven to 350; do it now.
5. Spray cooking spray on the inside of a loaf pan. Try not to inhale any of it—that stuff cannot be good for you.
6. Dump the ball of (very sticky) dough in the loaf pan, and try to smush it down so it’s mostly even.
7. Dot the top with cut up pieces of butter (optional, but it makes me feel like I’m really baking).
8. Agonize about whether the oven is hot enough; put the loaf pan in the oven even though it probably isn’t.
9. Bake for 50-60 minutes, until it sounds hollow when you flick the top with your finger.
10. Burn the shit out of your hands because it smells SO GOOD that you simple CANNOT WAIT for it to cool, and the potholders are ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE KITCHEN.
Those are probably the most in-depth instructions I have ever written for something so simple. And it goes with anything. I bring it as a hostess gift when I’m around real grown-ups, because it is cheaper than a bottle of wine, and also makes me seem like I have my shit together.” —Leah Starker
Oh yes! Beer bread is so good!
I’m super confused by step #2. Why am I giving away beer? So I have something to go back to the store for while the bread bakes?
Doing this toooooomorrrrrroooowwwwww!!!
Welp, I know what I’m making tonight.
I do this for Christmas! Put the mix in a fancy bag and give away with a beer in grown-up stockings. I even give it to my teetotaling parents, with a hard cider to make it taste less beery.
@OhMarie brilliant idea.
I did this last night! With Self-rising flour that was in my freezer, that way I was able to skip adding the salt and baking powder. Pro-tip, beer is really cold. Mix the dough with a spoon, or your hands might get brain-freeze.
This sounds delicious! It might be worth buying some cheap beer to use. Unfortunately I live in Massachusetts, where good beer is $10 per six pack. I’m not using that in bread!
BEER BREAD IS SO AMAZING! And it actually works fine/better with shitty beer, from what I’ve read, you can’t really taste the difference with ‘better’ beers, and in one blogger’s experience it changed the baking time and texture to use a better beer, not necessarily for the better.
I also grind a bunch of black pepper and shake some Italian seasoning mix in with the flour mix and it’s amaaazing.