Recipes for No Knead Bread
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 put the dough in the pan, let it rise, then bake it.
These types of bread are also referred to as batter 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 recipes or feel free to submit a recipe.
For more recipes and instructions, check out the August 2008 series on making batter breads in the bread-baking blog.
How do you make no knead bread?
No-knead (or batter breads) are yeast-risen loaves that are not kneaded; 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:
- 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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