I remember the large black wood cook stove in our kitchen in our farmhouse growing up. It heated our whole drafty 200 year old log cabin farmhouse throughout those cold Bucks County winters. It kept us warm and cozy. Mom also cooked on it. And in it. One of our most favorite treats was beer bread. OH MY GOODNESS. It smelled so good, it just filled the house with bready sweetness. We’d stand there and wait for a whole hour, checking on it constantly. Finally, it would be done and come out of the stove. I’m sure we had to wait 15 minutes before we cut into it, but I remember the hot slices all steamy, in my hands, then gone! The bread never made it to the table. The butter was close by, and spread on each slice. HEAVEN.
If you haven’t made beer bread before, you are missing out. Seriously. It is a simple and amazingly delicious treat. You will eat it standing up at the oven hoping it has had enough time to cool off so it doesn’t burn your mouth. Super delicious alone, but some butter makes it even more delish!
Aunt Ellie’s Beer Bread
- 3 cups Self Rising Flour*
- 3 tablespoons Sugar
- 12 oz beer
- pad of butter
- sesame seeds
Preheat oven to 375F. Put a healthy pad of butter in a 8″ loaf pan and place in the oven so the butter melts in the pan. Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Pour in the beer. Mix together so dry ingredients are no longer dry. Carefully remove hot loaf pan, sprinkle sesame seeds over the melted butter. Pour in the dough. Bake for 45-60 mins. Bread should be crispy on the outside and moist and chewy on the inside.
*Don’t have self rising flour? You can make your own: for this recipe:
3 cups of Flour, 1 teaspon Baking Powder, 1 teaspoon Salt
Notes:
3 tablespoons of sugar makes this bread pretty sweet. If you want a less sweet bread, try 1 tablespoon of sugar.
Yum!