[rabidralph]

Bread – Traditional Bread

2 packages active dry yeast
½ cup warm water + 1 ¾ cup water
3 Tablespoons honey or sugar
1 Tablespoon salt
2 Tablespoons oil
6 – 7 cups bread flour

Dissolve yeast in ½ cup water. Stir in 1 ¾ cup water, sugar, salt, oil and 3 ½ cups flour. Beat until smooth. Add more flour ½ cup at a time until dough leaves sides of the bowl.

Knead 10 minutes or till springs back when poked. Place in greased bowl, cover with towel and let rest in warm place till doubled, 1 hour. Punch dough down, divide in half and form into loafs. Place in greased pans. Let rise until double, about 1 hour. Bake at 425 degree oven 25 - 30 minutes.

Beer Bread

  3 cups self-rising flour (or 3 cups reg. flour plus 1.5 tsp baking powder & 1.5 tsp salt)
1/2 cup sugar
12oz of beer
2 T melted butter
 

Mix together four (powder & salt) and sugar.  Slowly pour beer onto dry ingredients and mix with a spoon until all is wet.  Pour into a buttered bread pan.  Bake at 375 for 55 minutes...pour melted butter over top of bread for the last 10 minutes.

[spitter]

This beer bread recipe looks wonderful! I used to have a recipe for beer bisquits but cannot find it. I’m gonna try this tonight though to go with the stew.

[Ann Archy]

yOUR BEER BREAD SOUNDS NICE AND easy!!!

[greeneyes]

This recipe is very similar to the bread my granny always made every Saturday.(Baking day). Instead of oil she used melted shortening or lard. The yeast was dissolved and a little of the sugar added. It was covered and allowed to rise(made a “sponge”).

She didn't have loaf pans. She used pie pans, and formed balls (about the size of soft balls) and placed 3(well greased) in each of the pie pans.

When the bread had cooled, she wrapped it in a clean cotton T-towel (made from a flour sack). This was placed in the granite water bath canner and covered. It sat on the counter and helped keep the bread fresh.

Granny never had store-bought bread. It was always homemade.

My beer bread recipe calls for 7 Tablespoons of sugar(less if you don't want it sweet)for each 3 cups of flour and 1 can of beer(12oz). It is my all time favorite to whip up when I am running out of bread, and am not ready to make a trip to the store. LOL.

I have also experimented with adding Cinnamon and raisins and sometimes nuts for a quick breakfast treat.