Aspiring bread makers, start here.
Made it for the first time for a German dinner we were having. My family loved it and made me promise to make it again. It’s an unusual recipe. The dough is really like a batter. You pour it onto the pan. Painting it with baking soda and water is a challenge and next time I’ll try to find a different tool than a pastry brush. Stick with the instructions. It does get dark brown. The inside stays soft and since I used bread flour, chewy. Great flavor too. A new favorite.
It sort of pooled along the edges of the bread and made them a bit more pretzel bitter than the center but still enjoyable. We also used more like 4 tbsp of butter, making sure to get as much in the edges as possible. This bread is so easy but so worth it!This recipe worked for me and I loved the result. It is an easy recipe, but does need a bit of planning ahead. In the midst of putting this together, I was confounded by the amount of wet ingredients.