Basic Beer-Cheese Bread
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
1 loaf
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1⁄2 cup finely chopped yellow onion
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 3 cups all-purpose flour (about 3 cups)
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
- 1 (12 ounce) bottle lager-style beer
- cooking spray
- 2 tablespoons melted butter, divided
directions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Heat oil in a small skillet over medium-low heat.
- Add onion to pan; cook 10 minutes or until browned, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in pepper and garlic; cook 1 minute.
- Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk; make a well in center of mixture.
- Add onion mixture, cheese, and beer to flour mixture, stirring just until moist.
- Spoon batter into a 9 x 5–inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray.
- Drizzle 1 tablespoon butter over batter.
- Bake at 375° for 35 minutes.
- Drizzle remaining 1 tablespoon butter over batter.
- Bake an additional 25 minutes or until deep golden brown and a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 5 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan.
- Cool completely on wire rack.
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
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