Irish Mercedes' Guinness Bread
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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 |
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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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