Whether you’re having company over for breakfast or just want to be able to grab something home baked as you head out the door for work, our Wonderful Wake-Up Bread is just the ticket.  Make it the night before, let it cool at room temperature, and then slice it in the morning.

You Will Need:
1 Box FirenzaTraditional Beer Bread Mix
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp ground coffee
12 oz. beer (1 can) or sparkling water
2 Tbsp. melted butter (optional)

1. Heat oven to 350° for metal pans, 325° for glass pans.

2. In a large bowl add sugar, cinnamon and ground coffee to bread mix combine with beer and mix about 30 seconds. Do not over mix.

3. Place dough into greased 9″ x 5″ pan, filling corners.

4. Pour 2 Tbsp. melted butter on top (optional).

5. Bake 50-55 minutes or until crust is golden brown. Let cool overnight and slice in the morning.

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Why not make our Beer Bread into a more fluffy but still delectable bread using your bread machine?  Add the ingredients to the bread machine, press a button and let the machine do the work for you.  Use our Traditional Beer Bread mix, but with 10 oz. of room-temperature beer and some yeast. Follow your bread machine directions for the regular or white bread cycle on the light crust setting.

You Will Need:
1 Box Firenza Traditional Beer Bread Mix
2 tsp dry active yeast
1 ¼ cup (10 oz.) beer or sparkling water
2 Tbsp. melted butter (optional)

1. Bring 1 ¼  cup (10 oz.) beer to room temperature.

2. Add ingredients to your bread machine.

3. Follow bread machine owner’s manual directions.  Use the regular or white bread cycle on the light crust setting.

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If you’ve loved the taste of focaccia bread in a restaurant and thought that it would be great to make at home, but probably too difficult, guess again.  Using our mix and your bread machine, it couldn’t be easier. You’ll get the wonderful focaccia flavor in a traditional fluffy loaf.

You Will Need:
1 Box Firenza Garlic & Cheese Focaccia Mix or Firenza Sun-Dried Tomato & Cheese Focaccia Mix
10 oz. beer or sparkling water
2 tsp. dry active yeast (not included in mix)

1. Bring 1 ¼ cup (10 oz) beer to room temperature.

2. Add ingredients to your bread machine.

3. Follow bread machine owner’s manual directions.  Use the regular or white bread cycle on the light crust setting.

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Use Firenza’s Traditional Sweet Cornbread mix as a basis for your Thanksgiving stuffing. Dee-lish! Also makes a great side dish for ANY time of year.

You Will Need:

1 box Firenza Traditional Sweet Corn Bread mix
4 stalks of celery chopped or cut into very small pieces
4 cloves of crushed garlic
3 Tbsp olive oil (you can substitute melted butter)
(Optional) 1 chopped onion
(Optional) 1 lb of browned ground sausage (pre-cooked before adding to recipe)
1 Tbsp fresh (or dried) chopped sage
2 tsp fresh (or dried) chopped rosemary
2 tsp fresh (or dried) chopped tarragon
1 Tbsp fresh (or dried) thyme
3/4 tsp salt or your favorite seasoning salt (use slightly less if you use the sausage option)
2/3 cup dried chopped dates
1 cup of chicken broth
(Optional) 1 cup chopped pecans

1. Make the corn bread according to box.

2. (Optional) Brown the sausage and drain all fat. Set aside.

3. Once the baked corn bread has cooled, remove it from the pan.

4. Cut the bread into 1” cubes.

5. Place the corn bread cubes on a baking sheet or cookie pan.

6. Bake the bread cubes in a 350˚ oven for 20 minutes or until the bread pieces become more firm and dry. Remove from the oven and set aside.

7. In a large skillet, sauté the celery, (optional onion) and the garlic together using the olive oil or butter.

8. Add the sage, tarragon, rosemary, thyme and salt to the celery mixture. Mix together thoroughly.

9. Add the dates to the celery mixture.

10. (Optional) Add the nuts to the celery mixture.

11. (Optional) Add the cooked ground sausage.

12. Turn the heat to low for 5 minutes.

13. Remove from the heat.

14. Place 1/2 of the corn bread cubes into a large bowl.

15. Add 1/2 of the herbed celery mixture to the bread cubes and mix together.

16. Add 1/2 C of chicken broth and mix.

17. Add the remaining cubes and the remaining herb mixture. Add 1/2 C more of broth so that the mixture is an even consistency. If the mixture seems too dry, add more broth.

18. Stuff the turkey. Depending upon the size of your turkey, you may have stuffing left over. Place extra stuffing into a casserole dish with a little more broth and bake covered for 30 minutes at 325˚. Serve when hot!

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Cornbread is a great addition to most any meal.  Here is a variation we like to use - making cornbread muffins.  An easy way to separate your cornbread into easy to handle individual portions.

You Will Need:

1 box of our Traditional Sweet Cornbread Mix
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil or melted butter

1. Heat oven to 375°. While oven is pre-heating, grease 8″x8″x2″ baking pan.

2. Blend milk, eggs, oil and mix together in a large bowl. Stir until moistened, about 30 seconds.

3. Spoon batter into 12 standard muffin cups, about 2/3 full.

4. Bake at 375° for 17-22 minutes.

5. Remove from oven. Let bread cool before serving.

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