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COOKING WITH BEER
Cooking with beer could be regarded as the ultimate rounding of your most pleasurable hobby of making home brew beer. You can put your culinary expertise to good use and entertain your guests by cooking with beer. You will find numerous ways to use your home made beer in cooking recipes. One favourite is to use your home brew beer in Batter for cooking fish, shrimp or mushroom. Home brewed beer definitely makes a superior batter. There are other recipes such as beer can chicken, German Beer Soup, Beer Cheese Soup, BBQ beer brisket, or, if you like it, boiling sausage in beer with onions, or, how about pork spare ribs sauerkraut and beer.
No need to worry about alcohol in your cooking because the alcohol evaporates above 86oC thus leaving desirable flavour components. Simmering some dishes in beer can help you prepare some very attractive meals. Beer is a more effective meat tenderiser than wine. Try it on what might normally be considered a 'tough' cut of meat.
Brewing, Wine, Cooking and Convivial Conversations
Many makers of home brew beer also like to make home wine. They just can't help themselves. Are you like that too? Even if you don't have the rural property to do it , or know how to grow grapes, you can voice some good knowledge of the subject during home brew sessions with your friends. Do you like the outdoor life? Then talk about camping and outdoor cooking recipes; or talk about recipes from around the world when discussing foreign beers. For busy families and snacks when boozing, how about quick and easy time saving recipes? Did you know that vinegar is good for your health? We all know that home brew beer is! For the best source of these good practical and conversation topics (and more), see the The Grape Guy
Beer Batter – Aussie Style
You can use your home brew beer to make the best beer batter for fish, schnitzel and other dishes. Here is a basic Australian beer batter recipe. The beer needs to be flat so maybe some left over from last night’s carousing?
You’ll need the following:-
1 cup of flat home brew beer
¾ Cup plain flour
1 egg
2 teaspoons of melted butter
¼ teaspoon of salt
Beat the butter and egg together.
Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and make a well in the centre.
Add the egg mixture and some beer and gradually blend with the flour until moist.
Beat the mixture to smoothness and add more beer until the desired consistency. Allow 10 – 20 minutes (time for a cold malty hoppy drop?) to mature before using to coat fish or meats or vegetables such as cauliflower or onion rings.
This Aussie beer batter recipe makes enough batter to coat about ¾ kg (or about 2 pounds) of fish fillets. Shallow fry or deep fry….your choice.
Clone Recipes
One of the exciting aspects about making your own home brew is that you can copy or 'clone' the style of popular commercial beers. For an excellent supply of clone beer recipes, they are all in the Ultimate Home Brewer's Recipe Book
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Beer Chicken Soup
Your home brew beer can be used in as many dishes as wine. The more flavour in the beer, the more in the food. Bitter beers may need the addition of some sugar or dextrose to suit your taste.
You will need:-
1 bottle of home brew beer (26oz/750ml)
4 ½ cups chicken stock/ broth
2 peeled and diced potatoes
1 onion, medium, finely diced
½ cup celery, finely diced
½ cup carrot, finely diced
1 clove garlic, minced
½ cup plain flour
600ml milk (or 1 pint)
Mustard powder, ½ tsp
Spicey sauce, e.g. Worcestershire, ½ tsp
Black Pepper
1 ½ cups Tasty Cheese, shredded
Salt, good pinch to suit taste
Parsley, finely chopped
Method:-
Cook potato in 2 cups stock simmering till soft. Blend till smooth with electric ‘stick’ blender or in bench top blender.
Use a boiler or dutch oven. Coat boiler with cooking spray before adding onion, celery and carrot. Cook with lid on for about 5 mins or until tender. Stirring occasionally then add garlic and cook for about 30secs.
Sift flour and blend with remainder of liquid stock and milk in a mixing bowl stirring with a whisk.
Add to boiler stirring constantly till mixture boils and thickens slightly.
Add potato mixture, shredded cheese, mustard, sauce, black pepper and salt. Reheat stirring constantly until cheese melts. Be sure you are also enjoying a cold glass of your favourite malty hoppy drop whilst cooking.
Add the good and tasty home brew beer to mixture in the boiler and bring back to simmer.
Cook gently for a few minutes until mixture is thoroughly heated.
Serve garnished with chopped parsley and freshly ground black pepper as desired.
Enjoy.
German Beer Soup
As you can cook with wine, so can you cook with beer and you can even make beer Soup. Try this old German recipe.
You will need:-
1 bottle (750ml or equivalent) of home brew beer (lager or ale or similar amber beer)
50 g (2 oz) butter
1 ½ tablespoons of sifted flour (more if you like a thicker consistency)
4 egg yolks
Pinch of cinnamon
1 tablespoon of white sugar or dextrose (home brewers will have on hand)
2 cups of dry white wine (home made if available)
Pinch of nutmeg
Grated peel of 1 lemon
Pinch of Ginger
Pinch of salt
1. Melt the butter in a boiler or large saucepan.
Gradually blend in the sifted flour, stirring constantly to avoid lumps, over a moderate heat until mixture is golden.
2. Stir in your bottle of amber malty hoppy drop and add the spices: salt, nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon.
Simmer gently without boiling for about 20 minutes.
3. With the beer simmering nicely, (and time for a coldie) put the egg yolks in a bowl and beat well.
Add the sugar and beat in the white wine and the grated lemon peel.
4. Slowly (i.e. drop by drop), beat 3 tablespoons of the hot beer mixture into the egg mixture.
5. Stir in this egg/beer mixture into the hot beer mixture ensuring new mixture is well blended and heated through. Keep temperature below previous simmering point.
Taste and adjust seasonings to suit your taste if necessary and enjoy!
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