Lemon Rosemary Bread With Pecans Recipes

ROSEMARY-LEMON NO-KNEAD BREAD

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine flour, yeast, salt, rosemary and zest.
• Add 1 5/8 cups water, stir until blended (dough will be shaggy and sticky)
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Let dough rest at warm room temperature (70F) until surface is dotted with bubbles (12-18 hours) Pleace dough on lightly floured surface.
• Sprinkle dough with flour, fold dough over onto itself once or twice.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest 15 minutes.
• Using very little flour, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat smoot cotton towel with cornmeal.
• Put dough, seam side down, on towel. dust with more flour or cornmeal. Cover with another towel; let rise until dough is more than double in size and does not readily spring back when pokked with a finger, about 2 hours.
• t least 30 minutes before dough is ready, put 2 3/4 quart cast-iron pot in oven; preheat oven to 450°F.
• Remove pot from oven.
• Slide hand under towel; turn dough over, seam side up, into pot; it's OK if it looks messy.
• Cover with lid; bake 30 minutes.
• Uncover, bake until loaf is browned, 15-30 minutes more.
• Set pot on wire rack; cool 10 minutes.
• Using oven mitts, turn pot on side; gently turn bread, it will release easily.

LEMON PECAN BREAD

Steps:

• Cream butter; gradually add sugar beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Combine flour, soda, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Stir in pecans and lemon rind.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 9X5X3 loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 to 20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes, remove loaf from pan and cool completely.

LEMON ROSEMARY BREAD WITH PECANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a loaf pan with butter-flavored cooking spray. Stir together flour, sugar, walnuts or pecans, baking powder, rosemary, salt and lemon zest in mixing bowl on low. In a separate bowl, whisk eggs,then whisk in wine or apple juice, and olive oil, then stir into dry ingredients. Use a spatula to scrape bottom and sides and fold in. Pour the batter into prepared pan scraping all of the batter out with a spatula, and smooth the surface. Bake 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. My oven took exactly 55.