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  • Batter Bread Sandwich Loaf Recipe – GF Video

    Batter Bread Sandwich Loaf Recipe – GF Video

    This batter bread sandwich loaf recipe is similar to the no knead bread recipe we have done, but its even easier. Plus it makes a sandwich loaf bread, which is a lot easier to use for making sandwiches than artisan bread.

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    batter bread sandwich loaf recipe

    Batter Breads have been around for a long time, but recent recipes by Fleischmann’s and Cooks Illustrated have offered some improvements, our recipe is adapted from them.

    1 1/2 cups bread flour   9 ozs  260 grams

    3/4 cup whole wheat flour   3.4 ozs  96 grams

    1 packet or 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast

    1 1/4 cups hot water 10 ozs  283 grams

    1 tablespoon honey

    2 tablespoons melted butter

    1 teaspoon salt

    2 tablespoons hot water

    1 egg optional egg wash before baking

    2 tablespoons wheat germ or bran optional

    Add the bread flour, whole wheat flour and yeast into a standing mixer with a dough mixer blade attached. Put in the wheat germ/bran if you want to use it.

    Mix in standing mixer for one minute on low speed.

    Add in the melted butter,  honey, and 1 1/4 cups hot water, not boiling, just 100 – 120F hot, OK?

    Then mix the batter for 4 minutes on medium speed. If the dough sticks to the sides too much, stop halfway through and scrape down the sides.

    Be careful about putting the spatula in the mixer bowl while it is running. Learn from me.

    Detach the dough blade from the mixer and remove it and the bowl from the mixer. Scrape the dough off the dough blade, but let the blade sit in the dough in the bowl.

    Cover the bowl and blade with a towel. Let rise for 20 minutes in a warm place. I use the oven that I have preheated for a few minutes. A warm furnace room, or a hot sunny window works also.

    Put the mixer bowl back on the mixer. Dissolve the salt into the 2 tablespoons of warm water then add to bowl of dough, mix on low speed to incorporate.

    Use vegetable oil spray to coat a 8 1/2  x 4  1/2  loaf pan. This is the more narrow kind of loaf pan, it will give a higher rise.

    Pour the bread dough into the loaf pan.

    Cover the pan with plastic wrap that has been sprayed with oil. When the dough has risen to just below the lip of the loaf pan, remove the plastic wrap and let the dough rise to just above the rim of the loaf pan.

    Optional: you can glaze the dough with an egg wash at this point. Scramble the one egg and apply lightly.

    Bake in a 375F oven  for about 45 minutes, when the internal temp of the loaf is about 208 – 210 degrees, its done.

    After putting on a cooling rack, unwrap the end of a stick of butter and rub it over the top of the loaf to give it a sheen and more flavor.

  • 5 No Knead Bread Recipe Tips – GF Cooks Video

    5 No Knead Bread Recipe Tips – GF Cooks Video

    Make better bread with these 5 no knead bread recipe tips I’ve learned from baking this great bread. The original recipe is great, but with a few baking tips, its even better. Below are links to our other no knead bread videos. Watch our tips video here and then tell us your bread baking tips in the comments below.


    The basic no knead bread recipe can be changed up several ways, we did a steel cut oatmeal no knead recipe video here, that adds a neat oat flavor to the bread.
    First a big thank you to Jim Lahey, and his book, My Bread, The No Knead Method. He also has a pizza book, My Pizza.

    Using parchment paper has been a lightbulb for me. I’m not sure where I learned it from, but I used to flop the dough in to the dutch oven with some unfortunate results. Now I simply lower the bread dough in to the hot dutch oven. Its OK that the parchment sticks out of the lid, not a problem.

    5 no knead bread recipe tips

    Using a digital scale to measure your ingredients makes a huge difference! Yes, I am a convert to this method, as you can tell. The drag and scoop method makes for inaccurate measuring. Why does the bakery bread taste better? They use a scale to measure their ingredients.

    We love our dutch oven, but you don’t absolutely need one to bake the no knead bread recipe. Any oven proof bowl that has a lid that wont melt will work. Corning Ware kind of stuff is what we are talking about here big casseroles, etc.

    You can make cool designs in your bread, we use scissors, but you can use some serrated knives, and this fancy bread baking tool called a Lame. Dust the top of the dough before you cut into it. What kind of flour do you dust your bread with? I’d like to read about what people are using.

    Yes, you can make a whole wheat no knead bread, but from what I’ve found, the 100% whole wheat breads don’t come out great. We usually add up to 30% whole wheat to bread flour. Works pretty good.