Delicious: Beer bread--a two for one

There is nothing I like better in the world than multitasking, which is the essence of wild efficiency, which is really the essence of me--Girl Wonder. (Except for how I am the furthest thing from efficient and the only thing wondrous is how I manage to keep all my limbs and my head intact when I'm trying to do eight things at once.) But I can handle two small things at once--especially when they involve my two favorite things, which is delicious food and making people happy. If I can make people happy with delicious food, I will have earned my little spot of dirt, here on Earth. How am I earning it? With beer bread, as suggested by our favorite The Kitchn. Preheat your oven. Whip up a huge batch of the mix, from this easy recipe from A Year in Bread, leaving out the beer. Then, separate out enough of a loaf for yourself, and bake away while you festively tin the remainder of the mix for giving away as gifts to the people you love and are about to make so very, very in love with you. Then, celebrate your awesomeness and your pile of wonderful, inexpensive, loving gifts with a steaming hot slice of beer bread and loads of butter. Hooray!

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image via The Kitchn

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