Here is my wife’s dill bread recipe, which she got from her mom (who modified it from some community cookbook). 1 pkg. yeast 1/4 c warm water 1 c creamed cottage cheese 2 Tbsp sugar 1 Tbsp butter 1 Tbsp instant onion 2 tsp dill weed 1 tsp salt 1/4 tsp baking soda 1 egg 2 – 2 1/2 c flour Dissolve yeast in warm water and set aside. Heat cottage cheese to lukewarm, remove from heat, and stir in…
One of my wife’s favorite breads is “Dilly Casserole Bread.” It’s a yeasted bread with cottage cheese, dill seed, and onion flakes and tastes amazing warm with cream cheese (I’ve posted my wife’s variation of the recipe here). We’ve made it before since moving to Barcelona, but have a hard time finding cottage cheese here. I decided to modify it based on our lack of cottage cheese and love of sourdough bread. For my test, I halved the full sourdough…
I’ve been baking bread regularly as a hobby for the past 8 or so years. I started with Jim Lahey’s No Knead Bread recipe; it was so easy and tasty! After I got the hang of that I started exploring other types of bread. One thing led to another, and soon I was starting my own sourdough starter on the counter of my little basement apartment. I struggled to figure out how to make sourdough bread “right” for awhile. At…