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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?

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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 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

Batter Bread

This is a yeast-risen bread that’s not kneaded. The batter is beaten to develop the gluten.

Batter Cornbread Batter Corn Bread

Brown and golden and similar in texture to a quick corn bread, but batter is beaten, not kneaded.

Dill Batter Bread

A tasty yeast bread that requires no kneading or shaping.

Egg Casserole Bread

This quick and easy batter bread can be made in a pot or oven-proof bowl.

Rye Batter Bread

This Rye Batter Bread requires no kneading. Just mix the ingredients, then turn the batter into a loaf pan to rise and bake.

Sour Cream Batter Bread

This Sour Cream Batter Bread doesn’t require any kneading or shaping!

White Velvet Batter Bread

This unique bread was developed for baking in coffee cans to create a special mushroom shape.

Whole Wheat Batter Bread

This wholesome 100% Whole Wheat Batter Bread is beaten rather than kneaded.

Whole Wheat Batter Bread

This wheaty and chewy all-whole-wheat loaf is a batter bread that is not kneaded.

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.