Well then, guess it’s time to put up
Ok, I’ve just been informed that there are people out there who actually read this drivel and used to do so for the baking.
Here’s the deal.
Oven’s expensively out of order, so I’m stuck with my Cuisinart bread machine. Delightful as bread machines go but it’s bloody cheating.
A few days ago I tried my BeerBatterBread recipe in the thing and it really didn’t work so well. It under mixed (I restarted the cycle to give it a thorough going over) and it didn’t rise very well. It’s a chemically leavened bread, not a biologically leavened one. Now, there are settings for that on the machine but either they don’t work well or I have to tailor the amount of baking powder in the recipe for bread machine use.
Eyeballing it next to the recipes they gave me yielded no meaningful clue.
The result did actually taste pretty good. Though it did bake a bit too long. This cooked all instead of almost all of the alcohol out, which is a shame. There’s a slight sharpness to it when properly made that I now understand is incomplete evaporation of the alcohol in the Guinness.
The original BeerBatterBread recipe is a slight modification of the one found in the most awesome Kuro5hin post of all time. (I figure it’s ok to post the same link twice seeing as how I hadn’t posted it in 5 or so years.)
I’ll do some more experimenting and see what I come up with.
Unfortunately my current economic situation rather perfectly precludes me from doing any reasonable baking.
Tags: Baking