[Sca-cooks] cooking grains in beer

[Stefan li Rous]

We have talked previously about cooking various items in beer and ale 
and discussed various period recipes which do this. Some are in this 
file:
beer-in-food-msg  (24K)  9/ 7/04    Period recipes with beer or ale in 
them.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/beer-in-food-msg.html

Yesterday, I was making up some rice to use with some Gumbo which my 
wife brought home from her mother's. I decided to cook it in a 
previously opened bottle of beer (Guiness, I think) with some water to 
finish filling up the pot. Anyway, it came out fairly good, although 
not as flavored or as dark as I expected it might get.

So, I'm wondering if there are any period recipes which cook a grain in 
beer or ale. The recipes given in the above file are mostly for cooking 
things like chicken in beer and there aren't any grains. But my files 
are hardly comprehensive collections.

Stefan
(I also found out that if you aren't careful, beer can quickly boil 
over as can honey. Luckily it makes less mess)
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