Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
As a quiet personal celebration, I make the family lamb stew and am continually, but mostly unsucessfully, working on producing an edible soda bread to go with it. If anyone has a good recipe for that....
While not soda you might like this -

Beer Bread
3 cups self-rising flour
1/2 cup sugar
12 ounce bottle of Shiner Bock
2 tablespoons butter, melted

1. Preheat oven to 375 degree F
2. Butter a cake pan (equipment change, original recipe used a loaf pan) and set aside. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, and beer and mix well. The mixture should be sticky. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 45-55 minutes. At last 3 minutes of baking, remove from oven, brush the top of the loaf with the butter and return to oven.

Note - If you don't keep self-rising flour (like me biggrin) you ca do like I do and make it. Instead, use 3 cups of all-purpose flour, 1/2 tablespoons salt and 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder.

Most recipes call for cheap beer but that didn't make sense to me so I started experimenting with different beers. I noticed that the ales and stouts seemed to give the most flavor. My wife and I ended up on deciding on Shiner Bock as the best for our taste. It's a Texas verity for those outside the state. I've gotten good feed back on other such as Guinness. Chocolate stout also works well.

The change in pan gives more surface area for a crust. When combined with the higher sugar you get a great caramelized crust for a lot of flavor. Great hot but my wife enjoys it for breakfast the next two mornings, typically with apple slices.





Jim