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Cheese and Herb Beer Bread

Ingredients

  • 330 ml can of Beer
  • 3 cups self raising flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • 3 tablespoons sugar maybe brown sugar
  • 1 cup cheddar cheese grated
  • 3 tablespoons chopped herbs I used fresh basil & Rosemary

Instructions

  1. To cook the bread in the Biroix Dutch Oven, place it in the cold oven, with the lid on, and turn on to 200 degrees fan bake. You want the pot to be in the oven for at least 30 minutes before cooking the bread in it.
  2. Sift flour into a large bowl.
  3. Add salt, sugar, cheese and herbs, mix to combine
  4. Make a well in the dry ingredients, add the beer
  5. Mix well. I find it easiest to mix with a wooden spoon, and then swap to a blunt butter knife.
  6. Bring it together with your hands and knead a little just to get into a round shape.
  7. Transfer to a piece of baking paper dusted with a little flour and shape into a round loaf
  8. Take your dish out of the oven, it will be very hot. Always use tea towels or pot holders from now on to handle the cooking dish.
  9. Using the baking paper, pick it up and place inside your preheated Biroix.
  10. With a sharp knife, make a large cross on the top of the bread
  11. Place the lid on the Biroix (remember the lid is hot) and place the oven. Cook for 80 minutes, then take the lid off and cook for another ten minutes. Until golden.
  12. Leave to cool on a rack for at least ten minutes before slicing.