Making No Knead Bread
No Knead Maple Oatmeal Muffins
No Knead Breads are a great alternative if you're not comfortable making kneaded breads or if you want a dough that can be prepared in advance and left in the refrigerator to ferment. No knead doughs ferment for a longer period of time to develop the gluten. This longer fermentation process, allows you to do a lot of the work ahead of time. All you need to do on bake day (depending on the recipe) is to shape the dough, put it in the pan, let it rise, then bake it.
Batter breads are also considered no knead breads. Batter breads can be very convenient if you don't have time to prepare a kneaded bread. The bread rises once, then bakes. How simple is that?
Try some of these no knead breads.
For more recipes and instructions, check out the series on making batter breads in the bread-baking blog.
How do you make no knead bread?
No-knead breads are yeast-risen loaves that are not kneaded; the dough is placed in the refrigerator overnight to develop the gluten.
To learn more about making no knead breads, follow our progress as we bake through the breads in the Healthy Bread in Five Minutes book. Check out the bread-baking blog for more info on the HBinFive Baking Group.
Making Batter Breads
For batter breads, the batter is vigorously beaten with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer to develop the gluten. Batters may vary in consistency depending on the recipe. Since the mixture is a batter, no shaping is involved as the bread takes on the shape of the pan it is baked in. Examples of batter breads are Brioche and Sally Lunn.
Batter breads can be baked in many types of molds - coffee cans, ovenproof glass baking canisters, mini stoneware bread crocks, flower pots and regular loaf and tube pans of any size.
Tips for making batter breads:
- Only fill the mold or pan one-half to two-thirds full to give it room to rise.
- The rising time is crucial to the success of batter breads. The dough is delicate and can collapse very easily if allowed to rise too long.
- Batter breads are best eaten the day they are baked. They are also great toasted.
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Sources:
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Clayton, Bernard. Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads. 2006 Simon & Schuster.
Hensperger, Beth. Bread Made Easy - A Baker's First Bread Book. Ten Speed Press 2000.
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