The other night I decided to make a quick bread to go with our beef stew. I wanted something that would be crusty and thick. Also, it had to hold up well against a hearty stew. I ended up mixing up a Rosemary & Thyme Quick Bread. It was a pretty basic recipe that turned out to be a great little bread to whip together. I loved how it turned out golden brown. I also loved that my second child couldn’t stop eating it and telling me how much he loved it. He is a lover of carbs in all forms, just like his momma.
What You Need:
2 Cups of Bread Flour
2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon of Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Rosemary (dried)
1/2 Teaspoon Thyme (dried)
1 Tablespoon Sugar
4 Tablespoons of Unsalted Butter Melted
1 Cup Milk
1 Tablespoon Flour (for rolling dough)
1 Teaspoon Melted Butter (for buttering underneath dough on cooking sheet)
2 Teaspoon Melted Butter (for buttering TOP of dough)
How To Put It Together:
Sift all the dry ingredients together into a bowl. Then add in your melted butter & milk. Mix together, I used my hands and brought it all together. Then put it on a very lightly floured board, I use my wooden dining table. Shape into an oblong bread.
Put it onto a buttered cooking sheet. Then brush the top with some melted butter. Place in a preheated oven for 25 minutes (should be brown on top) at 425 degrees.
Serve with more butter. What? I love butter. I mean seriously I love butter, I have an addiction.
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Butter, butter, and more butter.
Whenever anyone asks me if I’m afraid of all the butter I use, I tell them that Julia Child and her husband lived to be in their 90′s, and who loved butter more than them? They’d use a stick a meal.
Recipe looks yummy, and we love stew. I’ll try it..
Thank you!
That looks unbelievably good.
Oh Beth,
From one carb lover to another. This bread looks like heaven. Of course, I started my healthy eating plan today. (unseen is the terribly frustrated wringing of hands) I will keep this on file. Thank you.
Dana
Ooh girl, butter is a southern girl’s best friend. Well, after our Mama anyway! That bread looks so yummy.
I just bought a loaf of rosemary thyme bread at the store. Guaranteed it won’t be nearly as good as yours.
This looks heavenly!
This sounds so easy and yummy! I have a bread machine I use but I have not been super happy with the results and I would love to try a loaf on my own in the oven! Thanks for sharing this – I am going to try it using Kamut Khorasan Wheat since it is so healthy and seems to bake up so light and fluffy! Can’t wait
trying it tonite!! p.s. with lots of butter on it
I grew an herb garden this year and had yet to use my rosemary and wanted to make rosemary bread to go with a hearty beef stew my mother made. I did not have hours to spend on it, so I gave this recipe a go and used fresh thyme and rosemary (more than the dried amount called for) and its it delicious. It holds up great with the stew, it doesn’t break into millions of tiny soggy pieces after a long dip/soak. Yum! and quick. Thanks!
I also shaped the dough right on the buttered cookie sheet once i had it right in my hands – no need to goo up a board.
I wonder how this would work with olive oil? What do you think?
I’d try it, olive oil tends to work well with a lot of items. Worse case it doesn’t turn out or you find that you have to use half olive oil & half butter. But if it were me I’d try it