Grammy's Kitchen · No-Knead Bread · No-Knead Buttermilk Bread
One of 174 no-knead bread recipes we measured
It ranks #1 of 174 for workability among the no-knead bread recipes we compared. 12 cooks on www.southernliving.com rate it 3.9★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 174.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 66% | 83% |
| fat | 0% | 4% |
| salt | 3% | 2% |
| yeast | 2% | 1% |
| total sugar | 0% | 2% |
| flour strength | 2.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 360 g | 3 cups bread flour, plus more for work surface and sprinkling |
| 10 g | 2.5 teaspoons kosher salt |
| 7 g | .25 teaspoon active dry yeast (from 1 [1/4-oz.] envelope) |
| 237 g | 1 cup water |
| .5 cup whole buttermilk | |
| Fine yellow cornmeal, for sprinkling |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.southernliving.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“This recipe has better flavor than most no knead bread recipes, due to the buttermilk. Definitely a keeper. I simplified the process, but still got excellent results. Totally unnecessary to weigh ingredients, the measurements worked perfectly. Americas Test Ki” — a cook, 4★
“To say this is a very loose dough is an understatement. I was not able to form the dough in a taut ball because so much was clinging to my hands. I was also unable to pull the dough across the work surface because it was so loose/sticky. When I "dumped" the do” — a cook, 3★