Beer in Baking

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I have somewhat of a stupid question. Is it ok for me, a minor, to eat cookies made with beer? If a sip of beer is sinful then how is that different from beer in a cookie? I’m under the impression that it evaporates but I’m no baker so I don’t know.🤷

If it does evaporate can someone please provide an accurate link that says so:D
 
Alcohol has a very low boiling point, substantially lower than water ( 175°F, 88°C- that’s why you can distill whiskey 😉 )

So if wine or beer is used in cooking, the alcohol boils off early into the cooking process.
 
The Precious Blood received at Mass still contain the properties (accidents) of wine which is alcohol. This is distributed to minors who receive Communion and is definitely not a sin. I’m Italian and there is a killer rum cake that the local Italian bakery sells and my whole family enjoys it. We do not get intoxicated from this. It’s mainly for the flavor. In fact in my Italian culture, which is primarily Catholic, children have some wine with their meals.

So I would have to conclude that a little beer baked into a cookie is not sinful. Intoxication is a sinful act but I hardly see that coming from a cookie… My two cents…teachccd
 
Since when is a sip of beer or wine a sin for a minor? It seems that all these situations have become black and white. Things that would not have been even venial sins in my youth have become “sins” of major proportion. When did we throw common sense out of the window?
 
rwoehmke said:
Since when is a sip of beer or wine a sin for a minor? It seems that all these situations have become black and white. Things that would not have been even venial sins in my youth have become “sins” of major proportion. When did we throw common sense out of the window?
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I agree, when did a sip of beer or wine become a sin for a minor?
 
Brendan said:
Alcohol has a very low boiling point, substantially lower than water ( 175°F, 88°C- that’s why you can distill whiskey 😉 )

So if wine or beer is used in cooking, the alcohol boils off early into the cooking process.
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The alcohol will boil off, if:
  1. the boiling temperature is reached or exceeded throughout the entire mass of the food being cooked, and
  2. The required temperature is maintained long enough for all the alcohol to boil off, and
  3. the alcohol vapors are not physically prevented from escaping the food being cooked.
Very often some alcohol will remain even after thorough cooking, just as foods cooked at temperatures exceeding the boiling point of water often do not become completely dried out. Unless the food’s ingredients contained an excessively high level of alcohol before cooking, the amount remaining afterward is usually too low to adversely affect a child, but persons with allergies or other unusual sensitivities to alcohol may be well advised to avoid even well cooked foods prepared with alcohol.
 
I’m quite sure it’s not sinful for you to eat a cookie made with beer.

Now, may I please have the recipe? 🙂

Betsy
 
We are forgetting that most laws about underage drinking apply to beverages. A cookie is not a beverage. You are not even breaking the law, in my opinion.

You can go into a restaurant and order a dish where wine is added and not get carded. I also agree with other posters that the matter is not sinful in any event, and that most of the alcohol boils off during cooking, anyway.

Andy
 
baltobetsy said:
I’m quite sure it’s not sinful for you to eat a cookie made with beer.

Now, may I please have the recipe? 🙂

Betsy
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This is my favorite recipe, and it is manly because it uses beer. 😃 I often bake this for days when I fast and it’s the only thing I eat all day.

Beer Bread
3 cups flour
3 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 (12 oz) can of beer
Combine flour, sugar, and baking powder into large bowl.
Add beer and mix thoroughly into a sticky dough.
Divide into a greased muffin tin.
Bake in an UNpreheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour.
Yield: 12 muffins.

(I’m told this can also be baked as a loaf, but I like the muffin tin to help me ration out my fast)

Yum, yum,
tee
 
tee_eff_em said:
This is my favorite recipe, and it is manly because it uses beer. 😃 I often bake this for days when I fast and it’s the only thing I eat all day.

Beer Bread
3 cups flour
3 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 (12 oz) can of beer
Combine flour, sugar, and baking powder into large bowl.
Add beer and mix thoroughly into a sticky dough.
Divide into a greased muffin tin.
Bake in an UNpreheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour.
Yield: 12 muffins.

(I’m told this can also be baked as a loaf, but I like the muffin tin to help me ration out my fast)

Yum, yum,
tee
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I’ve seen it with self-rising flour, also. And baked many a loaf!

I still want the cookie recipe, S_V7!

Betsy
 
Don’t most states also permit minors to partake under parental supervision? I know I frequently had a (half) glass of wine at holiday meals when I was growing up.

OP: there is nothing immoral about consuming alcohol, in and of itself. Jesus drank wine frequently. It could be immoral for you to break the law by drinking, since you are a minor, however, since Catholics are supposed to obey the law of the land.

You are not drinking it; you’re eating food that was cooked using alcohol. As others have posted, the alcohol generally cooks off, and there is usually an insignificant amount of it anyway, given the volume of the food being prepared.

Peace,
Dante
 
rwoehmke said:
Since when is a sip of beer or wine a sin for a minor? It seems that all these situations have become black and white. Things that would not have been even venial sins in my youth have become “sins” of major proportion. When did we throw common sense out of the window?
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Some Catholics think it’s a sin because they (I think, mistakenly) think things that are illegal are sins too.
 
I cook with cognac and wine all the time and there is no alcohol left by the time the cooking process is complete.
 
Haha, this brings back memories.

I was raised in a denomination that forbad all use of alcoholic beverages (as beverages). Now my mother was a champion fruitcake maker, and one of the ingredients of fruitcake was rum, and furthermore the finished cakes were wrapped in a rum-soaked cloth (loved the smell of that cloth!). Some of the ladies in the church thought they could get away with wrapping the cake in a cloth soaked in grape juice. One guess what the result was.
 
rwoehmke said:
Since when is a sip of beer or wine a sin for a minor? It seems that all these situations have become black and white. Things that would not have been even venial sins in my youth have become “sins” of major proportion. When did we throw common sense out of the window?
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I disagree. It is the law. The church says we are to follow the laws that are placed on us for common good, so long as they do not break the church’s laws. If you are drinking underage it is wrong, it is breaking that law. Now I wouldn’t go as far to say it is a mortal sin, but nonetheless, it is wrong.
 
Coming from a middle-european ethnicity (German, Hungarian, Czech, Prussian) it wasn’t supper unless it included cabbage or potatos, and wine or beer with the meal… anyone under 12 got milk or water.
On holidays the children were given a small glass of wine or beer with their meal… it was/is as integral part of “who they are” as the people sitting around them.

As far as using wine/sherry/beer in cooking it’s primarily there for the flavors it will impart to the food. Most (if not all) of the alcohol will be boiled off/evaporate during the cooking process.

Our current family favorite is “beer-butt chicken”. A 1/2 can of beer (in a stand) is stuck up into the cavity, and the chicken slow-cooked on the Weber grill. The beer boils, and the resultant steam cooks from the inside, and flavors the meat. It’s good stuff!
 
S_V7 said:
I have somewhat of a stupid question. Is it ok for me, a minor, to eat cookies made with beer? If a sip of beer is sinful then how is that different from beer in a cookie? I’m under the impression that it evaporates but I’m no baker so I don’t know.🤷
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A sip of beer is not sinful. I don’t like to have just a sip- if I’m going to have beer, I’m going to have the whole bottle (or glass, or can). That wouldn’t be sinful either.
 
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