Lammas No-Knead Bread

This sweet, no-knead bread is a great way to celebrate the harvest season!  You can make it absolutely anytime of course (it’s popular at brunches), but if you’re looking to infuse a little Kitchen Magic into your Lammastide, this is a great recipe.  One thing though, this recipe is approximate.  You have to kind of feel your way through it, at least, that’s what I do.  I’ll try and put accurate amounts to the ingredients.

Lammas No-Knead Bread

Ingredients

• a wee bit more than 1 cup of whole-meal flour
• a little more than 1/3 cup of all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2tbsp + 2tsp of brown sugar
• a little more than a 1/4 cup of cold butter, cube it
• about 3/4 cup of figs, fresh if you’ve got em, dried if not
• a little less than 1/2 cup of hazelnuts
• about 1 & 1/4 cup of buttermilk
• some seeds and oats to decorate the top

Directions

• Preheat your oven to a loving 350F
• Butter up a loaf pan
• Mix together the flours, the baking soda and the baking soda in a bowl.
• Rub the butter cubes into the flour-mix with your fingers.

  

  It should be all crumbly like this

• Mix in the figs and the hazelnuts.
• Add the buttermilk.  This part can be tricky.  You want the dough to be sticky.  Pour in enough buttermilk that it’s wet and sticky.

  

  See how it’s quite wet?  Its also very sticky, you should have to really work to get it off your fingers and into the loaf pan

• smooth out the top and sprinkle on your oats and seeds.

  

  I only had Pepitas on hand for seeds.  But that’s cool, because they are my favourite!

• Bake for about 50 minutes
• Leave to cool in the loaf pan for about 5 minutes, then turn out and let it continue to cool on a baking rack.

This yummy, sweet bread is great sliced up with apples, cheese, or some fresh butter.  I usually leave a little out for the spirits of my soul and house.