Recipe Ideas / Food Matching

Increasingly consumers are interested in drinking excellent beer with food. We receive a lot of enquiries from our customers for information about this topic.

Below is an easy to read table showing our suggestions - we are always interested to hear your opinions so please email: beers@stpetersbrewery.co.uk to comment or give us some new thoughts and ideas.

We have also started a list of recipes featuring some of St. Peter's Beers which are below. If you would like to send in your recipe using St. Peter's Beers please email them to: beers@stpetersbrewery.co.uk

Liz Curtis, who runs the successful ‘Lizzy B’ spices company (www.lizzy-b.co.uk) has provided this family favourite recipe for Steak & St Peter’s Old Style Porter Casserole.

St Peter’s Beef and Porter Casserole (generous 4 – 6 servings)

2lb stewing steak, cubed

2 garlic cloves, crushed

1 red onion, chopped

1 bottle St Peter’s Old Style Porter

Half pint good beef stock

1 Tablespoon brown sugar

Good shake of Worcestershire sauce

Ground black pepper/sea salt

Method

Cube meat and coat lightly in flour

Seal in hot oil in batches and keep to one side

Gently fry crushed garlic and finely chopped onion until soft

Add beef back into pan

Sprinkle in the sugar

Splash in the Worcestershire Sauce

Slowly pour in about half the St Peter’s ale, stir gently and bring to a simmer

Stir in half the stock, keep simmering

Season well

Cover and transfer to a medium oven (150C) for an hour OR simmer on the hob, check frequently

Stir in remainder of ale and stock

Return to oven / hob for another hour

Turn off oven and leave for another 30mins

Serve with mash or French bread or pasta and green veg or salad

Bon Appetit!

Honey Porter Ice Cream

½ pint double cream

170gms brown sugar

½ pint Honey Porter

Method

Place sugar and Honey Porter into a suitable pan and warm until sugar dissolves

Allow to cool, whip the double cream and then mix with the above

Put into ice cream maker for 1½ hours / time indicated on your ice cream maker

This makes approx 1 litre of ice cream

This works equally well with other flavoursome St. Peter’s beers.

St. Peter's Grapefruit Beer Granita

1 litre of Grapefruit Beer

400ml fresh lemon juice

600ml water

250g granulated sugar

Method

Heat the sugar & water in a pan & stir until the sugar has dissolved.

Leave to cool, then add the beer & lemon juice.

Divide between two one-litre plastic containers & freeze for around 3 hours, breaking up the mixture with a fork every 30 minutes or so.

It will never freeze completely because of the alcohol content, & you want a granular texture.

Serve in chilled cocktail glasses.

St. Peter's Old Style Porter Cake

175g butter

450g mixed dried fruit

Grated zest and juice of 1 orange

175g light muscovado sugar

200ml St. Peter’s Old Style Porter

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

3 eggs, beaten

300g plain flour

2 tsp mixed spice

2 tbsp flaked almonds

2 tbsp demerara sugar

Method

Preheat the oven to 150C. Grease and line the base of a 20cm deep, round cake tin.

Put the butter, dried fruit, orange zest and juice, sugar and St. Peter's Old Style Porter in a large pan. Bring slowly to the boil, stirring until the butter has dissolved, then simmer for 15 minutes.

Cool for 10 minutes, then stir in the bicarbonate of soda. The mixture will foam up, but this is just the bicarb doing its work.

Stir the eggs into the mixture, then sift in the flour and spice and mix well.

Pour into the greased tin, smooth the top with the back of a spoon, and sprinkle with the almonds and demerara sugar.

Bake in the middle of the oven for 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 hours until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.

Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then turn out, remove the paper and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.

Store in a cake tin for a couple of days before eating.