Irish Mercedes' Guinness Bread

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Ingredients

Ingredients

2 tbsp. dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water
1 tbsp. sugar
1 bottle (6-1/3) Guinness stout beer
2 tbsp. honey
1 tbsp. margarine or
butter
1 tsp. caraway seeds
2 tsp. salt
1-1/2 cup whole wheat flour
2-1/2 cup unsifted all purpose white flour
1 tsp. powdered ginger
1 tbsp. margarine or
butter to brush bread after baking

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 F.

Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup of warm water and 1 Tablespoon of sugar; set aside for five minutes. Heat stout, honey and margarine until warm. Add stout mix to the dissolved yeast and stir into 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in remaining flour, ginger and caraway seeds to make a soft dough.

Shape into a ball. Knead on a floured board until smooth, about 3 minutes. Form into a round loaf and with floured knife make a cross through center of the bread. Place in a greased 8-inch round cake tin. Cover with te towel and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour. Bake at 375 for 30 minutes or until done. Remove from pan and brush with 1 Tablespoons butter. Cool on rack.

The Irish Heritage Cookbook…..Mercedes McLoughlin & Marian McSpiritt

Author's Comments

This is an adaption of the popular beer bread.

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