Old Fashioned Beer Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch square pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the egg, and mix in the molasses.
• In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Blend into the creamed mixture. Stir in the hot water. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake 1 hour in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow to cool in pan before serving.

Steps:

• Heat milk in microwave until just warmed (about 35 seconds)Dissolve 1 tsp sugar into warm milk.
• Sprinkle yeast over milk mixture and let sit for 10 minutes or until mixture is foamy.
• Heat beer, 2 tbsp sugar, butter, and salt together in a saucepan until butter is just melted.
• Remove from heat and let cool until lukewarm (if it's too hot it will kill the yeast).
• Beat in yeast mixture with a fork.
• Place 4 cups flour into a bowl. Make a well in the center and add the beer mixture and then the yeast mixture.
• Stir with a wooden spoon; mix dough with hands when spoon requires too much effort.
• Place 1/4 cup flour onto work space and turn dough out onto the flour.
• Knead for 10 minutes, adding as much of the remaining flour as the dough will take. Knead until the dough is smooth and elastic.
• Lightly grease a large bowl. Place dough in bowl and roll it around until well coated.
• Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for two hours or until dough has doubled in size.
• Punch down dough in the bowl.
• Roll back into a ball and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Divide ball in half and knead each half into a ball.
• Using a rolling pin, gently roll each ball into an 8x11 inch rectangle.
• Starting at the narrow end, roll each rectangle up tightly.
• Pinch the ends and the seams together and place the loaves seam side down into greased loaf pans.
• Cover and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix egg yolk and water together.
• Brush the tops of the loaves lightly with egg wash and then slash the tops of the loaves with a large knife (the sharper the better).
• Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until golden.
• Loaves should make a hollow sound when tapped.

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in water, add honey and let stand until it bubbles, approx 5 to 10 minutes.
• Add salt and oil to yeast mixture, then add flour a little at time until you have a stiff dough.
• Turn dough out on a floured surface and mold into a ball shape. Place in pan and cover; let rise for about an hour.
• Punch down the ball of dough and mold it into a loaf shape to fit you bread pan. Cover with a towel and let raise again until it doubled in size.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for about 45 minutes. Bread is done when it is golden brown and sounds hollow when thumped.

Steps:

• Place ingredients in the bread machine pan in the order suggested by the manufacturer. Select Dough or White Bread setting, and then Start.
• If the dough does not form a ball on the paddle, add 1 tablespoon of flour at a time until the ball forms. Allow machine to complete selected cycle.
• To bake conventionally, remove the dough from the bread machine pan after the Dough cycle has completed. Shape into a loaf, and place in a greased 9 x 5 inch loaf pan. Let rise until doubled. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 40 minutes.