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[Dentman]

Then you can deliver bread to any locked down vulnerable neighbours......in your SERIES II 

[Peaceand]

Yesterday we failed to find any nice bread at the local shop, so my partner set about making beer bread rather than using yeast. I don't know which recipe she used, but it worked and produced quite a dense but soft loaf. It was a small bottle of Duvel Belgum blonde.

Neither of us drink beer but we have some in stock for visitors so it's a good use for it. If you do like beer, you have a difficult decision to make.

She's not yet found a reason to tap into my whisky or cider collection thankfully.

[Genem]

Here are the results, one a Spelt/white mix, the other a Rye/white mix.

Herself ran a Home Baking business for the Farmers Markets for a good few years....now complains she can't do "ordinary" batches because she's so used to weighing out ingredients by the multiple Kg !

[Peter Holden]

I think Liz need to practise making single loaves, that will leave you free to get on with the important land rover work Gene

Peter

[Genem]

I think Liz need to practise making single loaves, that will leave you free to get on with the important land rover work Gene

Peter

That's all her own work Peter, I've been outside fighting with that bodged clutch. The tube on the cross-shaft has been "fixed" with two bolts at right angles, both of which sheared off when I tried to remove them, one needed drilled out as both the bolt head end and the nut end sheared, leaving a stub wedged in the middle that stopped the tube moving in any direction...

[martinthefirst]

Update, I racked my beer yesterday and collected some of the yeast, let it drip through some muslin for a few hours and ended up with a nice solid block. Made Pitta bread today and used a little of this yeast. It came out very well with no beer flavours at all. Some pics attached and hopefully a link to a video:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/G8AzA7ZEXTtj7ygK7

[Porkscratching]

They look tasty, a bit like naan bread from the pics !

[Craig T]

They look tasty, a bit like naan bread from the pics !

A good curry would be so welcome right now.....

Craig.

[Genem]

The village "group buy" set-up over the hill from us have managed to buy some flour in bulk and some 500g tins of dried yeast. We should be OK for baking our own Bread for a while...

[Dentman]

That's such a heartwarming result from community spirit Gene, fair warms the cockles it does! 

[andrewR]

Sorry, late to this thread.
I make several 5 gallon beer batches a year. Every time, I get a pint or more of yeast sludge from the bottom of the fermentation bucket. This stays viable for a couple of months in the fridge, kept in an old ice cream tub with a bit of extra beer from the bottom of the barrel, if I keep feeding it with bits of sugar.
Makes fantastic bread. Just mix with flour/water (2:1 by volume) and a tablespoon of sludge yeast and bit of the extra stale beer for flavour, and a bit of salt.
Just mix and leave overnight to let it rise a bit.
Knock back, leave an hour, then put in a pre-heated casserole dish (lid on) at ~225C.
30 mins lid on
15 mins lid off
Cracking!

[Rog-from-Bix]

The village "group buy" set-up over the hill from us have managed to buy some flour in bulk and some 500g tins of dried yeast. We should be OK for baking our own Bread for a while...

The landlord of Our local pub has set up a "shop" (there isn't one in the village) to keep the business going for the duration and we have got baking supplies from there, he is keeping prices as reasonable as he can too. It is one of the things I am sure the local population will remember after this is all in the rear view mirror.