Draff Party Bread – without yeast

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 125 g spent grain
• 375 g flour
• 0.33 liters of beer (Hefeweizen)
• 1 tbsp honey
• 50 g butter, liquid
• 2 tbsp fried onions
• 1 handful of seeds or nuts
• 1 packet of baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• possibly bread spice mix

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 40 minutes; Total time approx. 55 minutes

Fast and clever!

This is a recipe for when you’re in a hurry and yeast dough takes too long. First, preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit). While you’re at it, add the butter and, if using, candied honey to melt. Mix together the flour, spent grain, baking powder, and salt. Add the wheat beer, liquid honey, and about 2/3 of the melted butter and stir everything together. You don’t necessarily need a mixer; a sturdy wooden spoon will do. Once everything is well mixed, stir in a large handful of seeds or nuts. Finally, add 2 heaped tablespoons of roasted onions. If the taste is a bit too “weak” for your liking, you can also refine the bread with bread spice. Pour the tough and sticky dough into a loaf pan lined with parchment paper. For a party, you can also bake the dough in silicone muffin cups. But be careful: Don’t use paper baking cups, as the bread will stick! Before baking, brush the dough with the remaining butter. Place a heatproof bowl of water in the oven. Bake the bread at 175 degrees Celsius (convection oven) for 40 minutes (loaf pan) or 30 minutes (muffins). Tips and hints: Spent grain can be obtained from home brewers or breweries. Instead of seeds and/or nuts, I simply used lettuce seeds this time, which contain a mixture of sunflower, pumpkin, and pine nuts. The bread also tastes very good with roughly chopped and roasted walnuts or hazelnuts. In that case, however, I omit the roasted onions. Other flavor variations include sun-dried tomatoes, olives, ham, olive oil (in place of the butter), herbs, e.g., fresh rosemary, thyme, sage, etc. If you want to shape the bread into loaves instead of baking in a loaf pan, you might need to use a bit more flour, but I haven’t tried that yet.