Miracle Beer Bread

So, during the pandemic there has been a run on yeast at grocery stores as those sheltering in place attempt bread-making. Shelves are depleted of yeast as well as toilet paper it seems.

I found this quick bread recipe in an Edna Staebler cookbook called 'More Food that Really Schmecks'.  It's a bread that does not require yeast and uses only 3 ingredients. And that’s exactly what it tastes like: flour, sugar and beer. If you butter it when warm, it tastes like warm butter, flour, sugar and beer.  Not half bad. The texture is somewhat suspect, verging on tea biscuit consistency. Let’s call this briscuit, rather than bread. It would be a great accompaniment to soup, stew or chili.

Ingredients: 

• 3 cups self-raising flour
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 bottle of beer at room temperature

Methods: 

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. 

Mix the flour and sugar, pour the beer in slowly to avoid frothing, stir until the flour is moistened. Place the dough in a buttered loaf tin and bake it at 350 degrees F. for about an hour. Remove from the pan and cool on a rack.