Black Beer Bread (Guinness)

Ingredients

• 300g Wholemeal flour
• 75g White flour (the plain sort used for cakes)
• 40g Oat bran
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
• 20g Butter
• 240ml Milk
• 100ml molasses (I used Black Treacle)
• 150ml Black beer (I used Guinness)

1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside. Preheat the oven to 180C

2. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat

3. Add the molasses until it dissolves, then turn off the heat

4. Off the heat, add the milk and beer and mix well

5. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients in the reserved bowl

6. Mix well and transfer to a loaf tin greased with butter

6. Bang the tin on the worktop to get rid of the air bubbles in the dough

7. Bake the bread on the middle shelf of the oven for approximately 55-60 minutes

8. Use a skewer or knife to test whether the bread is done; if the skewer still comes out with raw dough on it, return it to the oven for a further 5 minutes, repeating if necessary