I'd love a Guinness but with some medication I'm taking, no alcohol for me. But I can still COOK with Guinness. (I wanted to cook, I must be feeling better :-)How about an aromatic loaf of homemade bread?
Guinness Quick Bread (Recipe in the comments)
A quick bread, made with self rising flour, sugar, Guinness, crushed Rosemary and melted butter. It smells incredible as it bakes, turning out a golden crusty loaf, tender on the inside, that's perfect with soup or stew or sliced cold for breakfast.
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Oh, wow. Here I am looking at your bread, while at work eating, well, bark & twigs.
But Younger Daughter DEFINITELY has her marching orders, now. :^)
That looks sooooo good.
Guinness Bread
3 cups sifted SELF RISING flour
1/4 cup sugar
pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon crushed dried Rosemary
1 and 1/2 cups Guinness (12 ounces)
at room temperature. If it develops a head on it as you pour it let it settle to make sure you get the full 1 and a half cups.
Mix ingredients in bowl and place in standard sized bread pan sprayed with PAM (or non stick coating of your choice).
Melt 3 Tablespoons of unsalted butter(NOT margarine) and pour over the top of the dough.
Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 45-50 minutes (45 works in my oven).
Rosemary and Bread is a combination that has to be in my top five of things that go great together. Hope you're feeling better, B.
Mmm, that looks quite tempting on a full stomach.
Glad you're feeling better enough to want to bake - hope the recovery is as smooth a good scotch, and you are soon as hale and healthy as your recipes!
Excuse me. There doesn't seem to be any bacon in this recipe.
Who are you, and what have you done with the real Brigid?
Delighted you are feeling a little better.
Pneumonia? Get well soon, Brigid.
And when you're better, maybe a "Black and Tan" dinner. ;-)
Thanks for the recipe. This one looks terrific. :) I'm glad you're better. Being sick sucks.
Oh my, I MUST try that soon!
Here's a favourite in the house.
Rosemary Popovers.
2 eggs
1 cup flour (I use self rising)
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon melted butter
2 teaspoons fresh snipped rosemary
1/2 teaspoon salt
Heat oven to 450 deg F. Generously gease popover pan (I use olive oil).
In medium bowl, beat eggs slightly. Blend in remaining ingredients. Just until smooth. Fill cups about half full. Bake at 450 deg R for 20 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 deg F. Bake 20 minutes longer or until golden brown. Serve immediately. 6 popovers.
They would be fabulous with home made tomato soup.
Hi Brigid
Being a good brit of celtic/anglosaxon decent. Thats part Irish part Englishh to those that don't know. Living on the right side of the pond. That the UK for those that don't know.I have a question. What's a popover? It sounds like a cross between a pancake and a muffin.
Excellent blog by the way. I've been an avid reader for the last year. Whilst you have dropped hints and clues I have never quite worked out what it is you do for a living. Perhaps the clues I seek are are buried in the earlier posting from before I became a fan.
Get well and keep safe. Mornings would never be the same with out a daily fix of Brigid and her blog.
Anon - the closest I could think to use by way of example would be yorkshire pudding. But the similar batter is baked in a special deep cup where steam hollows out the inside, making the product rise up. It's eaten with butter or jam, but I have taken the top of one off and filled it with stew or such. The recipe, with a picture is in my sidebar under "popovers".
Best,
B.
Brig
Got ya!
I had something similar in South Africa when I was there a couple of years ago. But it was a type of bread loaf that they baked, then hollowed out from one end and filled with a meat or vegetable stew.
We use to have it for lunch when out in the bush. It saved on having plates or bowls as you just eat it as it came, working your way down the loaf as you go. Delicious.
I love the photos you include in the blog, very evocative! Are they all your own work? I'm very envious if they are. I don't have a creative bone in my body.
Anon - There is an occassional gun photo which comes from a friend, but 98% of the photos are mine. It's just a little digital point and shoot and I don't have any editing software that I know how to use. It's just light and something that says "take this picture".
Looks good, Brigid. Hope your recovery is speedy.
Morris County, I'll have to try that, too. BTW, I lived in Daingerfield as a kid.
Tennessee Bud, Daingerfield is still there. Did you ever go to Greers' Farm?
Brigid, the popovers are addictive.
Brigid,
I'm almost 60, and this weekend, there were two firsts in my life: I had my first Guinness and I made my first loaf of bread...you guessed it, the Guinness Bread. That first Guinness was u_n_b_e_l_i_e_v_a_b_l_e_!!! I can't believe it has taken me this long to find the perfect beer. The bread is pretty good too!. Thank you for your writings and sharing.
Very good.
The audience found it a bit sweet, so less sugar next time.
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