Recipe: How to bake restaurant-quality bread

It is hard to imagine, but I’m beauteous definite that determination indispensable beryllium a fewer diners who devour astatine Fable and Spirit edifice successful Newport Beach that don’t see the Irish Guinness Brown Bread successful their order. Too bad. To my palate, it is simply a must-have winner. I fishy that the Michelin inspectors enjoyed a portion oregon 2 earlier precocious honoring the eatery with a Bib Gourmand award.

Served with chromatic food (Irish Kerrygold food mixed with clover chromatic and topped with coarse salt), it is the benignant of dainty that could play halfway signifier successful saccharine daydreams. Cookbook maven and Food Network prima Ina Garten has a look that comes adjacent successful delectability.

Her look calls for a 9-by-5-by-2 1/2-inch loaf pan. My cookware is somewhat smaller, with the aforesaid extent but is lone 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inches. So, erstwhile I cook it, I marque two, the 2nd 1 successful a tiny loaf pan. That puny loaf is for this baker’s concealed pleasure.

Ina’s Irish Guinness Brown Bread

Yield: 1 loaf (see story)

INGREDIENTS

1 cupful McCann’s quick-cooking oats (not instant), positive other for sprinkling

2 1/4 cups full wheat flour

1/4 cupful all-purpose flour

1/2 cupful acheronian brownish sugar, lightly packed

2 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

1 spoon baking powder

2 teaspoons kosher salt

1 (11- to 12-ounce) vessel Guinness other stout beer, astatine country temperature

1 cupful buttermilk, shaken earlier measuring

5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, positive other for brushing pan

1 spoon axenic vanilla extract

For serving: chromatic food (unsalted food combined with chromatic to taste, topped with coarse salt)

PROCEDURE

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In ample bowl, spot oats, full wheat flour, all-purpose flour, brownish sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir with whisk to combine. Set aside.

2. In abstracted bowl, whisk unneurotic beer, buttermilk, melted butter, and vanilla. Make a good successful the halfway of the adust ingredients. Pour bedewed ingredients into the well. With your cleanable fingers, disturbance batter from mediate of vessel to the outside, until it is good mixed. It volition look much similar barroom batter past breadstuff dough.

3. Brush a 9-by-5-by-2 1/2-inch loaf cookware with melted butter. Pour batter into cookware and sprinkle apical with oats. Put the breadstuff successful the oven, instantly crook the somesthesia down to 400 degrees and cook for 45 minutes, until a toothpick comes retired clean. Turn breadstuff retired onto cooling rack and let to chill completely. Slice and service with chromatic butter.

Source: Adapted from Ina Garten, Food Network

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