SC - Recipe Request

[James L. Matterer]

All, a brewing friend of mine has moved into a wonderful new manor.  He 
has
several crates of beer that need to be used soon.  As a housewarming 
gift, I'm
putting together recipes that include beer as an ingredient.  I have 
several
bread and soup recipes, but am interested any recipes anyone would like 
to
share.  If the recipe is period, I'd appreciate the reference, 
otherwise, let me
know where it came from so I can correctly credit the source(s).  Thanks 
in
advance.

Coming from a Household (and a mundane family, for that matter) who just 
don't feel it's a celebration until alcohol is present in some form, one 
can go the obvious route and use the beer for boiling.  Beer-boiled 
shrimp adds a wonderful flavor to the served-cold appetizer.  Boil a 
potroast in beer with bay leaves forEVER and out comes a wonderful, 
tender piece of meat that you can make a great gravy for to serve with 
mashed potatoes, made with (yup, you guessed it) half milk and half 
beer.

There's always beer-cheese soup or this one, a recipe my Gramma gave me 
when I went off to college (how'd she know there'd be beer there?)

Beer soup

3c     Beer (2 cans)
6T     sugar
1c     milk
1/2in  cinnamon stick (or 1/8tsp ground)
2      eggs
1/3c   sour cream
1/8tsp grated nutmeg

Put beer and sugar in saucepan; heat.
Put milk and cinnamon in another saucepan; heat but do not boil.
Put eggs, sour cream and nutmeg in mixing bowl; whisk.  Add hot beer, 
whisking rapidly.  Remove cinnamon stick; beat in milk.  Pour soup into 
saucepan; heat thoroughly, stirring constantly.  DO NOT BOIL--IT MAY 
CURDLE! If you manage to curdle it anyway, strain it.(Gramma wrote it 
like that, so I'm typing it like that)
Serves 4-6

And of course you can always substitute beer for water in anyu  batter 
you're making for meats to give it a little extra oomph.

Regards, 
Ingus (who never seems to have beer around for long...)

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