Beer Bread

Hey Folks...

I used to have this great recipe for a quick bread that used beer and had herbs and garlic and some cheese and it was really great. I think it also had olive oil in it -- it was sort of vegan friendly.

I've done some searching on line but haven't found it and I'm wondering if any of you have a recipe you might share? Or point me in the direction of a place I could find a good one?

I have to go to a wake this weekend and I want to bake bread to take with me but I don't have time to deal with rising etc.

So...any help you guys could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Shannon

Have you thought about using a traditional Irish Soda Bread recipe, adding your herbs and cheese, and substituting beer for some of the buttermilk?

Here's a start:

http://www.bookguy.com/cooking/SodabreadRecipes.htm

I used to have a similar recipe somewhere....easier than biscuits when you're making a pot of chili...it's fun to play around on the internet with somebody's dilemma, isn't it? You never know what you'll find

I came up with these two which you probably already found, not exactly what you want, but....
Colavita Beer Bread
Vegan Dilly Beer Bread

Most interesting was an article about using beer bread as a base for pizza...hmmm...

The much-maligned and underrated The All New All Purpose Joy of Cooking has a great recipe for Quick Beer Bread along with a variation for Beer, Cheese, and Scallion Bread (pp. 775-776).

Bill/SFNM

As long as we're looking for beer breads....

I can't find the recipe for something a little different. Sometime in the mid-80's, I made some WONDERFUL beer rolls from a recipe that was in that year's November edition of Bon Appetite [or so I remember - maybe it wasn't Bon Appetite, maybe it was the December issue...]. It was part of the Thanksgiving dinner I made that year. I have searched all over the web looking for these rolls, and never found them again. Searched through every November issue of food magazines I still have around [and I've unloaded a number of them over the years], and can't find it.

There may have been oats involved.

This recipe ring a bell with anyone?

Giovanna

Bill, I think the cheese and scallion version is the one I remember, though I don't have the recipe anymore...

Great suggestions all -- thanks so much for coming through, LTH!

nr706--what kind of substitution of beer for buttermilk would work do you think? like 50%? The combo of beer and buttermilk seems odd to me though. I'm not much of a scientist so I don't know what potential disasters await such a substitution. Great website link though.

i do not possess the Joy of Cooking (i know...i must be one of the only people in the world who doesn't have it -- but my mom never had one -- we were strictly Betty Crocker, Julia Child and Fannie Farmer based in terms of basics) but maybe I can find one to borrow.

The beer rolls sound fabulous...

This recipe looks like it might be the sort of thing you're looking for:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recip ... ews/104160

The comments section has a lot of info about variations other people have tried--looks like a really adaptable recipe.

earthlydesire wrote:what kind of substitution of beer for buttermilk would work do you think? like 50%? The combo of beer and buttermilk seems odd to me though. I'm not much of a scientist so I don't know what potential disasters await such a substitution.

Since beer and buttermilk both have about the same acidity (≈ 4.1 pH) any substitution should work to activate the baking soda. The higher % of buttermilk should yield a more tender crumb, more beer will make a coarser, more rustic bread.