Cheddar Beer Bread is an easy quick bread that is delicious along so many meals and makes great sandwiches with leftovers.
And it has just four simple ingredients.
I served this with a roast beef and then enjoyed it the next day as a roast beef sandwich.
It would be equally delicious with barbecue or some hearty soup or stew.
As you can guess, two of the ingredients are cheese and beer. Use any beer and cheese you want here. I "stole" a good Mexican beer from my husband's end of the semester celebratory 6 pack. Thanks, Honey!
And I opted for cheddar because I think it pairs nicely with the beer. And, it's what I had on hand... Yes, I say that on the blog a lot.
Sugar is needed to help the bread rise and give it that toasty brown color. You could opt for honey or maybe molasses. Don't go with artificial here, unless you want a pale loaf.
The final ingredient is "self rising" flour. You can make your own self rising flour by substituting 3 cups all purpose flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt. Which, of course, increases the ingredient count to a whopping six instead of four.
A 12 ounce beer contains 3 tablespoons of alcohol. After 30 minutes, only 35% of the alcohol remains per information on the Idaho State University website. This means you are left with about 1 tablespoon for the entire loaf, or 1.5% alcohol for the loaf.
Using an alcohol free beer (which still contains a little alcohol) would reduce these even further, but there would probably still be trace amounts.
If you avoid all alcohol for health or religious purposes, you probably won't be interested in this recipe anyway.
You can make your own self rising flour by substituting 3 cups all purpose flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder and 1 teaspoon salt.
Until next time, happy eating.
~Audrey
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