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Recipes for No Knead Bread

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No Knead Bread is great if you don't have time to prepare a kneaded bread.

These types of bread are also referred to as batter breads. The bread rises once, then bakes.

Some batters require refrigeration, such as Brioche (featured in the photo) which enables you to do a lot of the work ahead of time.

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Batter Bread

Batter Corn Bread - Aug 17th blog

Blitz Bread - Focaccia

Brioche - Traditional

Brioche - Aug 24th blog

No Knead Cranberry Harvest Bread

No Knead Harvest Dipping Bread

No Knead Pepperoni Pizza Bread

White Velvet Batter Bread - Aug 10th blog

Whole Wheat Batter Bread - Aug 31st blog

For more recipes and instructions, check out the August 2008 series on making batter breads in the bread-baking blog.

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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:
Copyright © 2007 - ACH Food Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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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