Making Cheddar Beer Bread...

[magenta321]

What better way to rise and shine?

I'm using a recipe from farmgirl's blog, I will paste it below in case the blog post becomes inaccessible for some reason:

Basic Beer Bread Mix:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 Tablespoon granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon baking powder (make sure it's fresh!)

2 Tablespoons chopped fresh dill (or 2 teaspoons dried)
1 cup finely grated sharp cheddar cheese
12 ounces beer

Optional glaze: 1 egg & 2 teaspoons water, beaten

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, dill, and cheddar in a large mixing bowl. Slowly stir in beer and mix just until combined. Batter will be thick. Spread in a greased 8-inch loaf pan, brush with egg glaze if desired, and bake until golden brown and a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes.

Cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool 10 more minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

I just threw everything except the dill into the bread machine. I used garlic and italian seasoning instead. I am not just mixing it in the machine, I will cook it there too. I'll let you know how it comes out!

I thought I had some full-bodied beers in the fridge but the food goblins must have gotten thirsty and drank them. I didn't realize I was out of beer until I had all the ingredients in the pan. Doh! It's also Sunday, and there are blue laws here, so we can't buy beer today. Double Doh! I finally found 2 mini bottles of Corona (7 oz each) and used those (minus 2 oz). So I guess it's Mexican-Italian bread. Multinational, just like the country we live in!

I will let you know how it comes out. It's still mixing right now.

[magenta321]

Ack! It came out pretty bad. I had planned to serve it to company. They arrived just before the timer went off. I took the bread pan out of the machine and set it upside down to cool (and hoping it would help the loaf slide out so I wouldn't have to fight it so hard when I wanted it out of the pan). Unfortunately, when I went back to my loaf, half of it had fallen out of the pan and half was still in the pan. Yuck.

Needless to say, I wasn't able to serve it to my company. I guess not all bread recipes translate into bread machine recipes. Doh!

[Helen_B[$]]

This being a "quick" bread receipe, I don't think it works in a bread machine. Maybe in a greased crock pot??

[conradd]

Maybe in an oven. Quick bread recipes are, by definition, quick. The batter needs to go in the oven as soon as it's mixed or the baking powder, even if it's double acting won't be able to work properly. Yeast needs time. Baking soda needs immediate heat, and baking powder needs to be baked soon after mixing.