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Making Batter Bread is a very convenient and easy way to enjoy bread. If you don’t have time to prepare a kneaded bread, try this type of bread. It only requires one rise (proof), then you bake it. How simple is that?
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.
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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 bread:
- 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.
Batter Bread Recipes
This is a yeast-risen bread that’s not kneaded. The batter is beaten to develop the gluten.
Brown and golden and similar in texture to a quick corn bread, but batter is beaten, not kneaded.
A tasty yeast bread that requires no kneading or shaping.
This quick and easy batter bread can be made in a pot or oven-proof bowl.
This Rye Batter Bread requires no kneading. Just mix the ingredients, then turn the batter into a loaf pan to rise and bake.
This Sour Cream Batter Bread doesn’t require any kneading or shaping!
This unique bread was developed for baking in coffee cans to create a special mushroom shape.
This wholesome 100% Whole Wheat Batter Bread is beaten rather than kneaded.
This wheaty and chewy all-whole-wheat loaf is a batter bread that is not kneaded.
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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.