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By: Menu Plan Monday « Saving Money Ideas

Menu Plan Monday « Saving Money Ideas — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:56:10 +0000

[...] cream of broccoli soup (Farm Family Favorites of Lancaster DHIA, #955), crusty bread, [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:59:19 +0000

Making homemade bread really is the best. It is so satisfying, there are limitless possibilities, and yes, there is nothing like filling up your home with the smell of fresh baked bread.

By: Eat It Brooklyn

Eat It Brooklyn — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:24:29 +0000

This looks so yummy & delicious. So satisfying to make your own bread (I used to do it a lot, when I lived on a farm and made bread for the whole group of us almost daily!). There’s nothing like the smell of baking bread. I think you’ve inspired me to get back into it! Thanks!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:30:58 +0000

Wow, I haven't made bread with beer before but its a great idea as they're two of my favorite fermented products. Using baking powder and self rising flour is not something that I have experience with either, but if the bread was too dense, maybe there wasn't enough baking powder, or maybe it wasn't fresh and lost its rising power. Foodie Farmgirl has this great post about all different flavors of beer bread. She uses a recipe that sounds similar to the one you tried, except she uses all purpose flour. The flavor combinations sound really great, and I like her idea of mixing the ingredients and giving it as a gift with a bottle of beer presented in a loaf pan. I'm gonna have to try these.

By: Dara

Dara — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:12:44 +0000

a friend of mine is vegan. i was at her house and she was making soup. and said ‘bring a beer and make the beer bread’… and i figure ‘hey, if something includes beer, im much more likely to do it’..
ingredients: 3 cups self rising flour (ha!) 3 tbsp. sugar. and a beer. mix and bake at 350. in an oiled pan.
we used an iron skillet in the oven… and made the ‘self rising flour’ with 3 cups flour 1 1/2 tsp salt. 3 tsp baking powder and 3 tbsp sugar.

i cant say it came out great. but seems like a fun and easy thing to play with (ie: mixing it part with ww flour etc.. i didnt love the texture but thought if you were the bread king you could fix it.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:57:14 +0000

Great question Peter, here’s the breakdown:
3 cups of King Arthur bread flour = $0.61 (@ $3.60/ 5 lbs)
1/4 tsp yeast = $0.17 (@ $1.99/ 3 pack)
1 and 1/4 tsp sea salt = $0.04 (@ $2.99/ 750 grams)
about 1/2 cup of organic yellow cornmeal = $0.14 (@ $2.29/ 32 ounces)

Total cost = roughly $0.97

Bread like this would be at least $3.00 at the store, and wouldn’t be anywhere near as delicious or as satisfying as what you would make at home. In these economic times, home baked bread just makes sense!

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:36:16 +0000

I’m curious – how much did all of the ingredients cost?