We’ve made beer bread

Beer bread is very, very easy to make, and very quick, too. Plus, it needs only three ingredients. It is gloriously simple, and tasty. What’s not to like?

This actually started out as a bit of an experiment – a bit of light relief while we waited for our sourdough starter to grow sufficiently vigorous to bake bread with. Less than an hour later we had a rather wonderful loaf cooling on the rack.

Here’s what you need:

Ingredients
320g self raising flour
320ml beer
3 tablespoons of sugar

So, it’s all threes, and it’s easy to remember how much flour and beer you need as they’re basically the same, although you’re switching grams for millilitres.

We used our home-made beer, which works out at just a few pennies per bottle, so the costs on this one were very low.

Method
Heat the oven to 180 degrees, and while it is warming lightly grease a loaf tin. This is not a loaf you can make by putting the mixture flat on a baking tray as you can with some breads as it is simply too wet. A loaf tin is therefore essential kit.

Sift your flour and put this with the sugar in a large mixing bowl. Pour in the beer and mix well until you have a smooth batter that looks like a good cake mix.

When you can see no lumps of flour any more, pour the mixture into the loaf tin and bake for 50 minutes. By the time it is done, the yeast in the beer will have caused the loaf to rise and the top will be lovely and smooth. It should also be a nice beery brown colour.

Carefully turn it out onto a rack to cool and, when cold, slice and butter to serve. It is sweet and beery, so great eaten on its own, but would not be good in sandwiches.

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