This delicious Mrs Wrights Beer Bread Recipe is easy to make and requires only five simple ingredients. Low in fat and rich in taste, this beer bread utilizes beer as a leavening agent (a popular ingredient in colonial bread making). This is a very simple and tasty bread that is sure to please everyone you sere it to. To make a delicately flavored loaf of bread, use a light beer. For a dark, heavier taste, try using a bottle of ale.
Mrs Wrights Beer Bread Recipe is courtesy of Kelly Wright from her new book, The Benjamin Franklin Diet.
- 3 cups whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup brown sugar or raw sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon sea salt or coarse salt
- 1 (12-ounce) bottle of beer or ale*
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Adjust oven rack to lower middle position. Grease one (1) 9x5-inch loaf pan (grease bottom only of regular loaf pan or grease and flour bottom and sides on a non-stick loaf pan).
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In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; stir until blended.
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Slowly pour in the beer or ale and stir until you have a sticky dough.
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Spoon dough into the prepared loaf pan.
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Bake approximately 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. NOTE: Be sure and poke the toothpick already to the center of the loaf. A good check is to use an instant digital thermometer to test your bread. The temperature of the bread should be at 200 degrees F. when done.
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Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan.
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Serve warm.
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Makes 1 loaf.
* You can also use non-alcoholic beer, if you wish.
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