[Sca-cooks] beer in food

[hylander at ihug.co.nz]

We often use our bread as a starter for the beer and then use the flat beer (if
any) or yeast residue at the bottom of our ale bottles to make bread.
According to Derek (I'm not certain of this acuracy, but he's pretty good with
these kinds of things!)  There are some Belgian beers that have yeasts that are
hundreds of years old, using them in the same way with bread etc.

We also tried on the weekend cooking our meat in some beer.  Have you tried it?
its just an incredible taste!!  Perhaps beer would also have been used for
batters around meats and marinades or added at the last minute for flavour.

Once again, I apologise, I do not have any references to this.  I'm just
thinking back to what my grandmother has done.  It's economical, available and
cheap when you're using leftovers.  So it makes perfect sense to me.

cheers
Julie




> I've seen an 18th cent. receipt calling for "a pennyworth of new ale with
> the yeast on it," and ale barm is certainly used.  Weren't people  more
> likely to drink their beer than to cook with it, using broths for flavoured
> cooking liquids?  Or use it as a posset or caudle?  Robert May (1685) has
> three receipts for buttered beer or ale, involving boiling and scumming the
> beer, then mixing it with eggs, spices, and butter "and brew(ing) it."
>
> Nancy Kiel
> nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
> A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.   Emerson
>
> >From: "Julie & Derek Craig" <hylander at ihug.co.nz>
>
> >I don't have any period recipes for this, but.....  my husband and I brew
> >and we always use the residue for making bread  Now it makes sense to me
> >that this would have happenned, as I can't see the cook allowing anything
> >to
> >go to waste.  Especially something that makes the bread rise so well!!  We
> >have made all kinds of varieties of beer (including honey spiced..mmmmm)
> >adn
> >the tastes, as you can imagine vary.  The kids love it and it has a
> >beautiful malty taste (strength dependant on type of beer and amount put
> >into dough)
> >
> >just my 2c
> >
> >/Julie
> >
> >
>
>
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