Hey there it's Bettie from BakerBettie.com with another recipe tutorial now
today I want to show you how to make quick bread and quick bread also known
as a batter bread is a bread made without yeast and it uses chemical
leavening like baking powder or baking soda to make it rise now this means it
is really easy and fast to make hence the name quick bread now I'm sharing
with you today my quick bread base recipe and this can be used for endless
variations and different flavors and it can also be made into a savory or a
sweet quick bread and I'm gonna show you how to make both now I do want to note
that quick bread does have a slightly different texture than a traditional
yeast bread it's more like a muffin in texture but it's still absolutely
delicious and really nice to make if you do not have yeast on hand so let's go
ahead and start with the savory version and in one mixing bowl I'm going to
combine all of my dry ingredients now we're going to put in our bowl 2 and 1/4
cup with is 270 grams of all-purpose flour and to that we're adding 1
tablespoon of baking powder 1/2 teaspoon of salt and then any other dry mix-ins
you want to add I'm adding some fresh rosemary here about 1 tablespoon but you
could also add any other fresh herbs or dry spices that you like and I'll also
add here if you only have self rising flour on hand you can use that you'll
want to use 2 and 1/4 cup or 270 grams of that self rising flour and if
you use that you do want to leave out the additional baking powder and salt
because that is already included in the self rising flour now we're going to mix
the wet ingredients together separately we'll start with one and a half cups
which is 350 milliliters of milk and any kind you have on hand will work fine
next we're going to add three large eggs and then six
tablespoons which is ninety milliliters of a neutral flavored oil like canola
oil or vegetable oil and if you don't have that on hand you could substitute
that with melted butter and just go ahead and whisk all of those wet
ingredients together now all you have to do is combine your wet ingredients into
your dry ingredients and stir them together you do want the ingredients to
be combined well but you don't need to stir for a really long time
and if you want to add any kind of solid mix-ins like cheese nuts or seeds this
would be the time that you would go ahead and stir those into your batter
I'm going to go ahead and pour this into a nine by five inch which is a 23 by 15
centimeter loaf pan and I like to line my loaf pan with a piece of parchment
paper just for easy cleanup but you can also just grease your pan and we're
going to bake that at 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Celsius for 40
to 45 minutes and once it's finished baking go ahead and turn it out of the
loaf pan onto a cooling rack to cool before slicing quick bread can taste
somewhat eggy if you cut into it while it is still really hot now for our sweet
version we're going to do almost the exact same thing except with the
addition of some sugar so for our dry ingredients again we have 2 and 1/4 cup
or 270 grams of all-purpose flour and to that we're adding 1 tablespoon of baking
powder 1/2 teaspoon of salt and then any other dry mixes you want to add I'm
adding about 2 teaspoons of cinnamon to mine now for the sweet quick bread we
are going to use sugar and it can be granulated sugar or light or dark brown
sugar we're using 1 and a half cups or 300 grams and we're actually going to
mix the sugar in with the wet ingredients so we're adding one and a
half cups or 350 milliliters of milk then we're adding three large eggs
and six tablespoons or ninety milliliters of a neutral flavored oil or
melted butter now I'm also adding to mine about one
teaspoon of vanilla extract which is optional or you could use any other
extract you like and just whisk all of that together until it's really well
combined and that sugar is absorbed now again we're going to mix the wet
ingredients with the dry ingredients and stir those until well combined I'm using
a spatula here and you can see that it's a little bit difficult to make sure it's
all getting mixed together well so you can use a whisk if that's easier for you
but just be careful not to mix this for too long otherwise it can become really
tough and dry some lumps in the batter are normal and they will bake out if you
want to add any solid mix-ins like chocolate chips nuts or fruit you would
go ahead and do that here now pour the batter into your prepared loaf pan and
the sweet version does take a little bit longer to cook than the savory version
because of that sugar so we are going to go in at 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180
degrees Celsius for about 50 to 55 minutes until a tester comes out with
moist crumbs on it and that is it our savory or sweet quick bread you can use
this as your base recipe to make any flavor you like I really hope you found
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