I love the ever so simple recipe; 3 cups self rising flour, 3 tbls sugar and a can of room temp. beer. BUT, regardless of the small content of one beer being dispersed throughout the bread, DOES the alcohol bake out? I ask because I want to take it to work, but I work in an elementary school!
2007-03-20 14:43:21 · 6 answers · asked by irishjenn79 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Somewhere in the middle of all this WCTU inspired mess lies the truth
The fact is that all the alcohol does not cook out.
The fact also is that any yeast breads that starts life as sours - sourdough , ryes , pumpernickles are going to have some alcohol in them.
The reason being that all yeast breads are fermented and fermentation produces alcohol.
The greater the fermentation time the greater the amount of alcohol that is produced.
Where is the hue and cry about serving sour breads to children ?
To the math part
You have 11.25 ozs of flour
1.5ozs of sugar
12 oz of Budweiser which is about 5 % alcohol .
Your recipe weighs 24.75 ozs
of which .6 ozs are alcohol.
You basically have a stiff batter.
Since I hate ugly numbers, let's make them easier to work with.
There is 25 oz's of product weight
of which .6oz [ 1TBS ] is alcohol or about 2%
Hmmm Alcohol evaporates at 173 F and breads bake at 400-? F and usually pass the thump test at 190 F internal temp..
If 90 % of the alcohol burns off , one half a teaspoon will remain.
So yes each kid will get a wee bit of alcohol
but it will not have any effect on him
Heck the kid would get more more alcohol in his blood stream using a mouth wash.
2007-03-20 17:29:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
anoldmick is an ignoramous worthy of heaps and heaps of scorn. there is no possible way for all of the alcohol to bake out of the bread. Alot of it does, I'll give you that, but no, not all of it does. Plus, I still wouldn't think that's a good idea, because if you go in there, and give these children beer bread, and they like it, this might cause them to think that beer tastes good and make them want to try it out. Just doesn't sound like a smart plan to me.
2007-03-20 14:52:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think it bakes out, and some parents might object to you giving it to their kids without their permission. It does smell pretty strong also.
2007-03-20 15:00:50 · answer #3 · answered by sugarpacketchad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it does. Anyone who objects to beer bread because it's made with beer is an ignoramus worthy of heaps and heaps of scorn!
2007-03-20 14:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The vast majority, but not all, of alcohol evaporates when cooking with alcohol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking%5Fwith%5Falcohol
2007-03-20 14:57:55 · answer #5 · answered by retired_afmil 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!
Yum!
2007-03-20 15:35:51 · answer #6 · answered by dixiebell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋