Thanks to a recipe from our customer, Rocky Wallbaum, here’s a good way to use grains left over after you brew a kit of beer which has you add grains to water, which you’ll add to your wort. After you’ve drained the liquid off the grains, let them cool, then package in 1 cup sandwich bags and freeze. Thaw one bag at a time and make great bread! Use 1 bag to make 1 loaf of multi grain bread. Rocky’s recipe is as follows:
Whole grain bread (using ‘spent’ grains)
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Quantity |
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Ingredient |
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1 ¼ cups |
375 mL |
Water |
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1 T |
15 mL |
Oil |
|
1 ¼ cups |
375 mL |
Water |
|
1 T |
15 mL |
Oil |
|
¼ cup |
60 mL |
Molasses |
|
1 T |
15 mL |
Vinegar or Lemon juice |
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1 |
Egg |
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|
4 Cup |
1L |
Whole Wheat Flour |
|
2 tsp |
10 mL |
Salt |
|
3 T |
45 mL |
Bread machine (Instant) Yeast |
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1 cup |
250 mL |
‘Spent’ grains 1 |
Method:
In a bread machine: Add first five ingredients into machine. Then add remaining ingredients and set machine to make Whole Wheat Bread. When machine-beeps, prompting you to add additional ingredients, add ‘spent’ grains and allow to mix in. The moisture in the grains may make the dough more sticky; if so, then add additional flour to make a ‘normal’ dough. Allow to bake as normal.
I just used this recipe using grains from the “Black Pilsner” add-on pack. The 500 g of Caramel Barley and 200 g of Chocolate Barley gave me 10 -1 cup bags to freeze. I used one to make 1 loaf of multi grain bread.
