bread observation

[mrissa]

When you boil stout and molasses together, the sound they make is kind of like the sound of wind that comes in through the trees before rain.

I am not cleared to knead until nearly 11; it falls under "strenuous activity," according to the nurse at the ENH. So I'm making quickbread. Not-strenuous. Sulfurous, in this case, but that's not on the prohibited list.

Comments

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Stout + molasses sounds like a winning combination. What will they be going into? And is there a recipe? (Note: I think you know by now that I am the kind of person to whom it is okay to say "No, there's no recipe, it's just something I throw together" if that happens to be the case.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is most of a recipe. It is a recipe if you can assume that you know roughly how much flour goes in a quickbread by texture. Guinness gingerbread (http://www.marissalingen.com/stoutginger.html). Mmmmm. I used up all the brown sugar, all the butter, and all the powdered ginger in it, but I did not run short.

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

That sounds very very nice. Have made note of it. Thank you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Enjoy!

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

I will have to try that. Yum!

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Irish sodabread is also a nice non-kneading one.

[rosefox]

Stout and molasses can also go into Guinness ginger cake, which appears to be essentially the same as mrissa's recipe but with less flour and more sugar.

[rosefox]

And beer bread! I particularly enjoyed the Guinness bread with coarse Irish flour.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, and fruit breads: apple bread, cranberry bread, banana bread, etc. We do lots of those in my family.

[carbonel]

Oh! Was that the dark loafy gingerbread stuff that was near the tropical fruit at the wake?

That was lovely, and I was wondering where it came from.

Recipe?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, came from me. I'm pretty sure -- I didn't see any other dark loaf gingerbread there. Here (http://www.marissalingen.com/stoutginger.html).