Pumpkin Beer Bread from today's Slate

melissa-dallas

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Pumpkin-Beer Bread

Yield: One 9-inch loaf (About 12 servings)

Time: 1¼ hours

Oil or butter for greasing the pan

1¼ cup all-purpose flour

½ cup whole-wheat flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground ginger

Pinch ground nutmeg

Pinch ground allspice

3 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 cup pumpkin purée

1 cup brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 cup pumpkin ale

1. Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9-inch loaf pan. Combine the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice in a large bowl.

2. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over low heat (or in a medium bowl in the microwave). Remove from the heat. Stir in the pumpkin and brown sugar, then stir in the eggs. Finally, stir in the pumpkin ale. Add the pumpkin mixture to the dry ingredients and stir just until combined, then transfer the batter to the greased pan.

3. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool thoroughly, then slice and serve. (Leftover pumpkin bread can be wrapped in foil or plastic wrap and stored at room temperature for up to a few days.)

 
I was just thinking about pumpkin bread, Melissa. I'll give this a try. Wonder what the beer will

do for it. None of my other pumpkin bread recipes call for that much liquid. Well, we'll give 'er a go. Thanks!

 
Got the ale, made the bread (added lemon-cream cheese ribbon. What can I say, I LIKE cream cheese.)

I also topped the 8" loaf and 3 muffins with cinnamon sugar. They came out of the oven 30 minutes ago so I don't know how they'll taste but they rose really well, look to be reasonably edible. More as we survive the tasting.

 
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