BEER BREAD (breads of the world)

BEER BREAD:

INGREDIENTS:

3 cups self-rising flour
1/2 cup sugar
12 ounces beer (340 gr)
2 tablespoons melted butter

PREPARATION:

Step 1: 

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 ºC).

Step 2: 

Butter a loaf pan and set aside. 

Step 3: 

In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, and beer and stir well. The mixture should be sticky. 

Step 4:

Pour into the loaf pan and bake for 55 minutes. 

Step 5: 

3 minutes before it completes the baking, remove from oven, brush the top of the loaf with butter and return to oven.

Different types of beer bread can be made by using different beers; for instance, a dark beer will give a darker bread with a heavier flavor. Using a beer that is spiced, or having a flavor added, will be got a bread with a similar flavor, but less intense than the beer.

ORIGIN:

The origin of the resulting beer bread is totally dependent of the origin of beer. So if the used beer is from Germany, it be got a German beeer bread.

Both beer and bread have a common production process: yeast is used to turn sugars into carbon dioxide and alcohol. In the case of bread a great percentage of the alcohol evaporates during the baking process.

The “discovery” of bread and/or beer has been argued to be responsible for humanity's ability to develop technology and build civilization. The earliest chemically confirmed barley beer to date was discovered at Godin Tepe in the central Zagros Mountains of Iran, where fragments of a jug, at least 5000 years old were found coated with beerstone, a by-product of the brewing process.