Getting to know me, getting to know all about me

First the rules:

1. Respond and rework. Answer the questions on your blog. Replace one question that you dislike with a question of your invention, and add one more question of your own.

2. Tag other people.

Now the questions:

What are you wearing today? It is 6:39 a.m., I am still in my gown.

What’s for dinner? I think fish of some sort.  I have been hungry for fish.

What would you eat for your last meal? Tandoori pork, cornbread, coconut cream pie.  My first inclination was to eat something I can’t normally have like cantaloupe, but I really don’t want to spend my last hours strung out on Benadryl.  And what if I got a stay and I had killed myself with a melon.  How do you like the way I assumed I was being executed???

What relaxes you most? I can usual relax without much provocation.  Like just let me find a seat somewhere.  I have been really relaxed the past few days.  Or maybe even depressed a little.  Either way I haven’t accomplished much.

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would it be? I would meet my husband somewhere between here and there.

What language do you want to learn? I would really love to master French.  I understand way more than I can speak, and that annoys me greatly.

What do you love most about where you currently live? The privacy.  Near the end of a country road is pretty good most of the time.

What style is your current home decorated in? There isn’t one. As much as I like “house stuff”, there is not a particular style I favor.  If I like it, I will just stick it with the rest of  our conglomeration.

If you were a time traveler what era would you live in? Mid century -  ooops, already did that.  Guess I am not very adventuresome.  I like my modern conveniences.

What is your favorite color? Red, white, turquoise. But mostly red.

What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe? a patchwork prairie skirt I bought from an etsy shoppe.

What were you doing ten years ago? July of 1999, I was starting my soap business and doing pretty much what I do now, only more efficiently.

What are you going to do after this? Make coffee, decide if it is too muddy to go for my walk this morning.  Pick tomatoes.

What are your favorite films? French Kiss, You’ve Got Mail, Practical Magic, Elf, Christmas with the Kranks. Deep stuff huh?

What are your favorite books? I love cosy mysteries. But will read just about anything.

Do you collect anything? Books, coffee mugs, vintage pyrex.

What makes you follow a blog? Humor, craftiness, sewing info, retro style.

What was the most enjoyable thing you did today? Just got up.

Ann’s Question: What makes you comment on a blog? I find this hard to answer.  It really depends on if there is a question someone needs and answer to, and I might have it.  Or leaving a positive comment about a craft or art or post. I never leave negative stuff.

Amy’s Question: What is your favorite thing to do when you have free time? Hang out, watch a movie, nap.

Tonya’s Question: What is a talent you wished you had? I wish I could draw or paint.

Vickie’s Question: Who is your favorite actor? I really really love Al Pacino.

Kitten’s Question: Other than Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, etc. what are your most frequently visited websites? My girls’ blogs, CNN, Weather.com, I have a list of friends blogs I read. And that dang etsy.

SeptemberMom’s Question: What was your favorite subject in school?Math

Christy’s question: As a child/teen how did you envision your adult life? Pretty much doing what I am doing now. Wife and mom and now grandma.

Dan from Art of Panic’s Question: How much time do you spend on your average blog post?Probably 30 minutes or so.

Little Ms Blogger’s Question: If you could would you want to control the weather? Yeah, until I lost interest in it.

Susan’s Question: What is the one thing  you’d like to check off your “bucket list” in the next 5 years? I don’t have one.

Emotional Umbrella’s Question: If you could give any advice to your teenage self, what would it be? Getting a college degree might not be a waste in the long run.

My question: What did you do with all your time before the world of blogs? Definitely more work.

Tagged: Consider yourself tagged.

Saturday Book Notes & A Book & Apron GIVEAWAY!!!

Well, sort of book/movie notes & book & apron giveaway.  Is anyone else looking forward to seeing Julie & Julia???

Oh I cannot wait!  I have two friends who want to go so I will see it at least twice and then I know I will have to see it with Husband!  It is about the LATE GREAT Julia Child and an author named Julie Powell and the intertwining of their lives. I read the book a couple of years ago simply because it was food related novel and I love those!  Now I am listening to the book on my ipod on my morning walk.  My favorite still from the upcoming movie:

Anyone who takes food photos or provides food for food photos, or watches pictures being taken of food can’t help but appreciate this scene.  Stanley Tucci plays Mr. Child in the movie.  YAY!

Julia Child had a long love affair with food. Good food.  And I respect that.  And I expect to see a lot of aprons in this flick as well.  Gotta love a woman in an apron, right?

Oh I almost forgot!  In celebration of the opening of this movie I am giving away a copy of Julie Powell’s book Julie and Julia ~ my year of cooking dangerously. Oh…and yeah, an apron too.  Duh!  You didn’t think I could actually have a giveaway and NOT include and apron did you?  Fun huh?  How do you enter to win?  Well, leave me a comment telling me why you need a copy, a favorite Julia Child quip or quote if you have one and then consider yourself entered!  I will draw a name on Monday, August 9th.  Foregoing any unforeseen problems, I will have seen the movie by then.  At least once.  Man, I so don’t want to be disappointed!  You can see the trailer here. Just the scenes of the streets of New York and Paris are worth the price of the movie!

By the way, in amongst all my other projects, I am designing MY PERFECT APRON.  No, it will not be frilly, or cute (well maybe cute) but it will be what I consider PERFECTION in an apron.  Full coverage, straps that stay put, big enough to cover the sides of me so when I wipe my hands down the side of my hips (I can’t break myself of this habit), I won’t be wiping them on my clothes.  Pockets, oh yeah pockets!  And at least one loop for a dish towel.  Heavy enough so that when I step up to the sink and splatter myself with water or stand next to the stovetop tasting something and dribble it down my front, it will catch the spill and not let it soak thru to my clothes. There may be an apron similar to what I want out there, but I have yet to find it so…I will make it!  I have found ones that might do, if the dang straps would adjust without me pinning or sewing them shorter or folding the bib part where it will tie in the right place.  Not everyone is 5′6″ you know?  Therefore our torsos are a bit shorter.

So there you have it.  Happy Saturday EVERYONE!  And in the words of one of my heros….

BON APPETIT!

That’s a lot of onions!  And one pretty cute apron!!

Eat something good today!

Friday Baking with NotQuiteJuneCleaver Recipes for July 24- July 31

Time once again for new recipes!  The deadline for getting your name in for this past week’s challenge is 8 am today. Next Friday will be pretty special.  Not only will you get another set of recipes but it will be the last day of the month, therefore, we will draw a name from the jar for the winner of July’s goodies!  Good luck to all of you!  And Happy Baking!!

Our first recipe this week is a family favorite.  My oldest daughter mastered this recipe when she was about 15 I believe.  Her first “real job” was baking these for a local cafe…yes, at such a tender age! Posting this recipe is a good excuse for Rachel and I  to make these – we have to have a picture you know!

Cinnamon Rolls

This recipe is for a crowd.  Maybe a holiday breakfast.  But, take heart, it is very easily halved. Though you could make the full recipe and surprise a friend with half.

• 8-8 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 TBSP yeast
• 2 cups milk
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup butter
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 eggs

Filling:

• 1 cup butter
• 2 TBSP cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cup brown sugar

Glaze:

• 2 pound bag powdered sugar
• 1 TBSP vanilla
• 2 TBSP butter, softened
• Enough milk for desired consistancy

Combine 3 cups of flour and the yeast and set aside.  In a saucepan, heat and stir the milk, sugar, salt and butter just until warm (120-130°).  Add to flour mixture.  Add eggs.  Beat with an electric mixer on low for 30 seconds.  Beat on high for 3 minutes.  Stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can.  On a floured surface, knead to make a moderately soft dough that is smooth and elastic.  This might also be accomplished in your mixer if you have a dough hook and it is capable of kneading dough – if so about 8-10 minutes. Shape into a ball.  Place in a greased bowl; turning once to coat the surface of the dough.  Cover and let rise until doubled – about 1 hour.  Punch down dough.  Turn out on a lightly floured surface.  Divide in half.  Cover and let rest for 10 minutes.  Roll each half into a rectangle about 18″ x 10″.  Spread 1/2 filling over first half of dough.  Starting at the 10″ side roll tightly.  Using heavy duty sewing thread, slice into 15-18 rolls.  Place in a greased 9 x 13 pan. Repeat with remaining dough in a second pan. Cover pans with waxed paper and then plastic wrap.  Refrigerate 2-24 hours.  Let stand 20-25 minutes before making in a preheated 375° for 20-25 minutes.  Cool slightly.  Glaze.

Recipe two is your savory challenge for this week.  And another family favorite.  Why not have a tribute to Jess’ Mad Baking Skills this week?

You may already have a favorite dinner roll recipe but give this one a try anyway.  These are very very much like School Rolls.  You know, the rolls you smelled when you stepped off the bus every morning at Elementary School?  Mmmmm.

Jess’s Good Potato Rolls

Again, this recipe is for a large family or gathering.  It is also easily halved.

• 10 cups all purpose flour
• 2 TBSP yeast
• 1 cup potato water
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup water
• 1 TBSP salt
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 2/3 cup butter flavored Crisco, melted

Scald milk. To this add your potato water, Crisco, salt and 3/4 cup sugar.  Set aside to cool to lukewarm.  In a separate bowl, add 1 tsp sugar to warm water (110°) and stir in yeast.  Let stand until proofed.  Combine with other mixture in a large bowl.  Add eggs and 5 cups of flour.  Add remaining flour 1 cup at a time.  Knead to elastic and smooth with either your mixer with dough hook or by hand on a lightly floured surface.  Let rise in a greased bowl, covered until doubled.  Form rolls, desired size and place in a greased pan with 2″ sides, close together but not touching.  The shape of the pan isn’t important. This recipe if not halved makes several pans of rolls depending on the size of the pan.  But at least two 9 x 13s. We make ours about 3 inches around.  Cover rolls with a cloth and let rise until they touch and are to the top of the pan.  Bake at 375° until golden brown.  If you like, you can brush the tops with melted butter as they come out of the oven.

I am having a bit of a hen party tonight and serving Chicken and Dumplings – these rolls sure would go well!  Dessert: Buttermilk Pie! I can’t make Chicken and Dumplings without getting a little nostalgic.  My Ganky~my mom’s only sister and one of the biggest influences in my life, made THE BEST.  Pretty much the best everything. I don’t have her recipe, probably because she never had a cookbook that I am aware of.  I don’t remember ever seeing one in her house.  She cooked from scratch and memory.  The recipe I use though, came from Mrs. Pinkye.  Mrs. Pinkye and her husband Papaw Minkye (Ben’s names for them) built the house we live in.  They were friends, though much older, of my parents and sold my dad the land they built their house on.  When Papaw Minkye passed and Mrs. Pinkye went to live closer to her daughter, this place, right across the road from my parents, came up for sale and we bought it.  My mom got this Chicken and Dumpling recipe from Mrs. Pinkye probably 30 years ago and passed it on to me.  It’s a winner!  You can tell from the comments the original post got, that I am not the only one that thinks so!  And this is one of the greatest posts I was ever honored to be linked to. I still smile everytime I think of it. Thanks Sher.

Well, how’s all that for getting sidetracked!  Have a great weekend and bake something good!

Poor, poor neglected blog

I have been so busy, and so uninspired to write anything, here we are nearly a week between posts.  Very unlike me. I am usually full of something to say.  We are in the midst of re-testing the last of the pie recipes so we are usually too full to think about writing!  I just didn’t want you to think I had dropped off the face of the Earth.  I am here, just really busy.

Friday Baking with NotQuiteJuneCleaver Recipes for July 17- July 24

It’s that time again.  Sorry I am a bit late getting these posted today.  BUSY BUSY!!! But here are your new recipes! If you have questions and they aren’t answered on the Friday Baking page, please email me.  Happy Baking!

Your sweet recipe is our all time best cookies recipe from way WAY back.  It was the most requested when we catered years ago and now that Rachel is “back in business” they are still the most wanted.  They are just so good.  Any shape cookie is fine.

Cream Wafers

Below is a picture tutorial/recipe. As always gather all your ingredients before you start.

You will need:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/3 cup heavy cream
• 2 sticks butter at room temp (do not substitute)
• sugar for coating cut outs
• cookie cutter of your choice (the fluted ones like shown work BEAUTIFULLY)
• flour for dusting your work area
• Set your oven to 375

For Filling:

• 1 stick softened butter
• 4-5 cups confectioners sugar
• flavoring of choice (I use 1 tsp vanilla extract, and a 1/2 tsp coconut & lemon)
• Coloring if you like

I use parchment lined cookie sheets.

Cut the butter into the 2 cups of flour with a pastry cutter or fork until it is mealy…like cornmeal. Add cream all at once and mix until thoroughly incorporated.

Roll 1/3 the dough out adding just enough flour to keep it from sticking to the surface (I use a silicone mat). DO NOT over work your dough or your cookies will be tough. Cut what you can from this rolling and set the scraps to the side to use ONE more time. After the second rolling, discard the dough – too “used” to use, ya know?

Place your cut outs into a plate of sugar to coat.

Place the cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet and prick each one with a fork (3-4 times- no need to get “creative” like Husband!).

Bake about 10-11 minutes until set…not browned. Remove to a wire rack till cooled.

Mix your filling ingredients with a mixer until light. Spread one cookie and top with another. Makes a YUMMY sandwich cookie and delish with a great cup of Farmhouse Blend Coffee!

Here’s your savory recipe…

Peppery Cheese Crackers (Thanks! Martha Stewart)

Makes 60 crackers

* 1 cup bread flour
* 1 cup instant polenta
* 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon paprika
* 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
* 1 cup grated Mimolette cheese
* 2 1/2 tablespoons cold, unsalted butter, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
* 3/4 cup buttermilk
* All-purpose flour, for work surface

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or nonstick baking mats; set aside.
2. Place bread flour, polenta, salt, baking soda, paprika, pepper, and cheese in the bowl of a food processor; pulse to combine. Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal. With the machine running, add buttermilk. Continue processing until dough just forms a ball. Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface and knead for a few seconds. Wrap dough in plastic and let rest at room temperature for 15 minutes.
3. Cut dough into quarters. Using 1 piece at a time, roll out dough 1/16 inch thick on a lightly floured work surface. With a dry pastry brush, sweep off the excess flour. Keep remaining pieces covered with plastic wrap.
4. Using a 1 3/4-inch fluted round cookie cutter or a small fluted pastry wheel, cut out crackers and place on prepared baking sheet at least 1/2 inch apart. Roll out a second piece of dough 1/16 inch thick and repeat cutting process; place on second prepared baking sheet. Transfer baking sheets to oven and bake until crackers are golden brown and crisp, 15 to 18 minutes, rotating once halfway through baking. Transfer crackers immediately to a wire cooling rack; let cool completely. Repeat process with remaining dough.

Two Winners! The Lucky Ones Are…

The winner of the Vintage Apron is:

Lisa at Groggy Froggy

The winner of the NotQuiteJuneCleaver Apron is:

Becca at My Journey Through 50

I will be zipping you off an email to get your mailing addresses! Congratulations to both of you and THANK YOU to everyone who participated. We will be doing another giveaway soon!

If you haven’t decided to join us for Friday Baking with NotQuiteJuneCleaver, please do! Its been a lot of fun and you may win something as well! Read all about it here.
Lastly, here is an adorable picture Rachel took yesterday. I know snails are pests and wreck things sometimes, but you have to admit he’s pretty cute.

Sunday Shopping & Update on Apron Giveaway

Good Sunday Morning!  Before I go any further let me say if you have left a comment hoping to enter in the Apron Giveaway for tomorrow and I have not left you a comment on your blog, rest assured your name is in the jar.  Blogger and one other blog server is giving me fits with comments.  I don’t know if it is Mozilla or what but I cannot figure it out!  I am reading and looking at your blogs though and THANK YOU! Thank you for the shout outs and thank you for the enthusiasm.

Now a little shopping talk. Have any of you ever perused Polyvore? If not, get yourself over there and take a look around.  Polyvore is a free, easy-to-use web-based application for mixing and matching images from anywhere on the web. It is also a vibrant community of creative and stylish people.No, you don’t buy anything there…but you can certainly find things to buy.  Which of us wouldn’t find something in this we love?

Or what about this?

Yeah, it is a pretty cool place to get ideas!  And sources.  Oh, you very welcome! Enjoy!

And this is on my birthday list:

Got the bike…need the basket!  It can be found here.

The weekend is almost over.  I have sewing to do so I will get busy.  Have a great day and check in tomorrow for the winner of the aprons.  Oh…and you have until noon tomorrow to get your name in the jar.  I will draw names tomorrow afternoon.

I ended up not making the Yorkshire Pudding last night.  Remember how I always remind you to read over recipes BEFORE you begin?  Well I should have made them before I started the rest of my meal.  They take a while to bake, and by the time I got them ready, the roast would have been dry and cold!  So look for those in an upcoming Friday Baking challenge!

I will be taking pictures of pumpkins soon.  They are just now sprouting. I would have liked to have them in the ground two weeks before I did, but the weather was just too harsh and we needed a little rain.  But they are finally coming up!

Have a good one and see you soon!

Just ‘Cause Apron Fabric Sneaky Peeky

Thought you might like to see it.  Pretty huh?

Oh…and I plan to make it from this pattern:

P.S. I am having difficulty leaving comments for some of you.  But I have all your names in the jar!

Saturday Book Notes and a Little Garden Talk

I guess I should start by updating you on my progress with this book:

I am ashamed to say I have not finished it!  Shame on me.  It is good.  It is worth my time.  It’s just that my reading time is very limited right now.  With Husband home, and gardening and sewing and such.  Plus writing my own PIE book…well I will finish it  ~ soon.  Of course in the mean time I have read other things.  But mostly “necessity reading”.  Plus a few little short novels from the library (thanks Connie for keeping me in cozy mysteries!).  Right now beside my bed are two books about British History (non-fiction).  Husband and I watched a movie called To Kill a King with Tim Roth and Rupert Everett.

It was the condensed version of the history of the reign and death of Charles the First of England c. 1645.   By the way, Oliver Cromwell was a bit of a turd, if you ask me.  Being Irish and Scottish, as I am, this is a bit of an understatement I suppose. Everything I have read about him calls him a “strict Puritan”.  No kidding. If by strict you mean crazy, wicked, hateful and cruel, then yeah. But my opinion of him is based on very limited knowledge.  However, I fear that the more I read of him, the less I might like him.  I am a fan (root word of fanatic but much different meaning in my opinion) of many things but fanatics disturb me greatly. Zealous is good.  Over-zealous, not good. I say that with a straight face as I purchase yet another apron pattern and squeeze one more book onto already over burdened shelves.

So when it was over, we scoured the bookshelves for British History volumes.  You have no idea how many books are in this little house.  And then how many are in storage.  We honestly could open a fairly well stocked library.  While I was gathering books, Husband was reading online about the era.  We HATE not knowing stuff, you know?  And our depth of history knowledge is VERY shallow.  History was never a priority in our schools but we tried and still try to rectify that in our homeschooling. But it has meant that we have learned along side our children.  Which is always a good thing. Our kids are always frightened at our lack of historical knowledge. And we are always amazed at theirs. Hence the number of books on the subject.  We were almost lost in the facts and twisting of them in this movie and had to get an historically accurate picture in our minds.  Like where was Charles I’s palace or palaces?? We had no idea.  We knew it wasn’t the present day palace.  Or one we recognized.  So we paused the movie and looked it up online.  Our quick look brought us to Hampton Court Palace which was the one shown in the movie.

Home to many Monarchs and a fave palace of Henry VIII. Did you know Charles I was the only British Monarch to be executed?  I didn’t.  I am telling you, my knowledge of British History is sorely lacking.  Our time in London last October was just NOT ENOUGH.  I want to go back and visit more places.  The Tower of London was amazing and seeing Buckingham Palace was a dream come true but there is so much there.

I do wish movies of historical subjects, would be as accurate as possible and take as few liberties with facts as they can and still make it movie length.  But I suppose I really shouldn’t try to get the bulk of my history lessons from movies!

All this was to say, I liked the movie and would recommend it! I know you are all sufficiently bored now with our mundane Friday Night Movie Review.

Today, it seems I might have to replant some pumpkins.  I am pushing it really as it is getting late to plant and expect to have them ready by end of October.  But I hate also to give up too easy.  Our lack of rain has really hurt the germination.  We water, but it is just not the same as a good soaking rain every now and then.

Here is my big patch chart.  I also have 5 raised beds planted with smaller bush type gourds and pumpkins.  Hopefully more will be up by the 15th so I don’t have to try to get more seeds out.

I plan to try and make Yorkshire Pudding today.  You know, Yorkshire Pudding is not pudding at all but a kind of popover.  Yeah, threw Husband off the first time they were served at work.  Pudding?  That isn’t a pudding.  That’s a biscuit.  NO a biscuit isn’t sweet! That’s a cookie!!! Yeah, everyone was befuddled! I will let you know how they turn out.  Who knows, maybe they will show up in a Friday Baking challenge soon!

I suppose that’s all for today.  Have a great weekend.

Friday Baking with NotQuiteJuneCleaver Recipes for July 10- July 17

Is it Friday already???  Apparently it is.  So TA-DA!!! New recipes!  If you have any questions that cannot be answered by reading the Friday Baking page, then please email me!

I know I probably do not have to say this but please always read through recipes before beginning.

As in weeks before, you will have a choice of sweet or savory (or both) recipes.  Your first is an AMAZING cheesecake recipe that Rachel made yesterday for the first time.  Yeah, we like to try out the recipes when we have time.  Don’t want anyone wasting ingredients and their time and hard earned money on a bummer of a recipe if we can help it!  But take a look at this!

Yeah it tastes as good as it looks.  But Rachel surely made it look beautiful as well.

Thanks Rach for the photo!

Brown Sugar Cheesecake with Brownie Crust

Rachel topped this cheesecake with a simple ganache (see her recipe below) and fresh raspberries.

You will need three 8 ounce packages of cream cheese, softened so go ahead and sit it out while you prepare your crust. For your crust she used a brownie mix prepared by the directions on the package and cut the baking time by 10 minutes.  You want the brownie underdone. Or you can use your favorite from scratch brownie. While your brownies are baking, wrap the bottom of a 9-10 inch springform pan with 3-4 layers of heavy-duty foil. Spray the bottom very lightly with cooking spray.   When the brownie is baked and cooled enough to touch, press it into the bottom and partially up the sides of your springform pan.  Bake another 10 minutes.  Cool on a rack  and then place the crust in the refrigerator while you prepare the filling.

Filling:

• 3 pkg (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/4 cup light or dark brown sugar, packed
• 4 large eggs (room temperature)
  
• 8 ounces sour cream
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 450.  Beat cream cheese until smooth and fluffy.  Beat in brown sugar until light and well blended.  Slowly beat in eggs then sour cream and vanilla.  Beat just until well blended.  Pour into prepared crust.  Place the foil wrapped pan in a large shallow roasting pan.  Place in the oven and add about 1/2 inch water to the roaster, careful not to get any on  your batter!

Reduce heat to 325 and bake for 45-55 minutes  or until the cheesecake is firm around the edges but still slightly jiggly in the center.  Turn oven off and leave cheesecake in the oven for 30 minutes longer. Rachel propped the door slightly ajar with a wooden spoon. Remove cheesecake from the oven and cool on a rack until room temperature.  Remove the pan sides.

Chill at least 8 hours or overnight.  Drizzle with ganache or serve plain – either way is delicious!

Rachel’s Simple Ganache

8 ounces of any kind of chocolate and 1 cup heavy cream.  Chop the chocolate fine and put in a heat proof bowl.   Bring the heavy cream to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat and pour slowly over chocolate while stirring.  Whisk together chocolate and cream until homogeneous.  Mixture will thicken as it stands.  Store in refrigerator and bring to room temp before using.

Now your savory recipe:

Beer Bread

Another simple recipe!  We had this bread last night – took no time at all to whip up and get in the oven.  And is smelled so good baking! I actually used self-rising flour and omitted the baking powder.

Preheat oven to 375.

• 3 cups flour (spoon into measuring cup…don’t dip and measure!)
• 1 tsp salt
  
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 3 TBSP sugar
• One 12 ounce bottle or can of beer ~ light or dark
  
• 1/2 cup melted butter

Mix dry ingredients and beer.  Pour into a 9″ loaf pan you sprayed with cooking spray.  Pour melted butter over the batter.  Bake 1 hour.  Cool slightly in the pan and remove loaf from pan and let cool at least 15 minutes before cutting.  This is a fairly crumbly bread but it is so tasty!

Happy Baking Everyone!