Easy Oatmeal Batter Bread without Flour

This easy oatmeal batter bread without yeast starts with old fashioned oats ground into a flour and baked into a simple loaf. It's perfect as toast, with soup, or as a sandwich bread. This is a bread for those times when you can't get to the store or can't get the supplies you need.

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Shopping list

You'll probably have these ingredients in your pantry!

• Old fashioned or quick oats - I've never tried it with instant
• Flaxseed meal or whole flaxseed ground in the blender
• Baking soda
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Sugar - or other sweetener like brown sugar, molasses, honey, etc
• Eggs
• Milk - whole milk, almond milk, fat free milk, or another liquid

Instructions

This is a simple, quick bread that takes about 45 minutes.

1. Put the oats in the blender
2. Pulse until they are ground into a flour.
3. Add the oat flour to a bowl.
4. Stir in leavening, salt, and sugar.
5. Stir in flaxmeal or ground flaxseed
6. Stir until blended. Set aside.
7. Add eggs to a bowl
8. Add milk.
9. Whisk smooth.
10. Add the wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir for about 10 seconds.
11. Spoon into greased loaf pan and let set for 10 minutes.
12. Bake at 350F and let cool completely before cutting.

Tips

This no-flour, oatmeal batter bread is such and easy recipe there's aren't a lot of tips to give! Keep in mind this is an emergency bread - best for those times you can't get regular bread or flour.

• Be sure to let the batter sit for 10 to 15 minutes before putting it in the oven.
• Let it cool completely before slicing - this bread can be a little crumbly due to the lack of gluten.
• This can be made into a sweet bread by increasing the sugar.
• Store this tightly wrapped for up to two days.
• Make this in muffin cups (half full) to make some pretty decent english muffins.

Variations

If you can't find old fashioned oats think outside the box. Here are some possibilities -

• 7 grain cereal
• 5 grain cereal
• Coconut flour (no need to grind in blender)
• Almond flour (no need to grind in blender)
• Cream of wheat
• Rolled wheat
• Rolled rye
• Cracked wheat
• Almonds
• Rice
• Bulghur

In a pinch I've ground dried beans into flour. (it makes weird bread - not recommended).

Related recipes

Here are some more easy bread recipes.

• Batter bread is a simple, 5 ingredient, batter bread made with the most basic ingredients. A great bread for beginners because there's no kneading involved.
• Whole wheat beer bread is a no knead recipe is made with whole wheat for a hearty, rustic side to all your soups and stews! Instructions for quick bread version included.
• Oatmeal bread is a soft, slightly sweet sandwich bread with the old fashioned goodness of oatmeal and honey. You can also shape this dough into sandwich rolls or dinner rolls. 

Equipment

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You'll need a good blender to get the oats as finely ground as possible. I have a Kitchen Aid blender that I love.

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Y'all, as I write this we are in for a rough patch - all of us. At some point it will be all behind us and people will see this recipe and wonder why I bothered to post such a thing when the stores are full of flour and yeast and ... toilet paper.

But sometimes things happen. Sometimes we need to know how to make something from nothing - and I hope this simple oatmeal batter bread helps someone get through this time a little easier.

You know, sometimes we just need that piece of toast. This was developed from a recipe my mom had during the Depression. Some of that old knowledge sure comes in handy sometimes, doesn't it?

Thank you all. I appreciate you taking the time to visit Restless Chipotle and I hope and pray that I am able to encourage you in some small way.

The addition of flaxseed meal to this recipe was inspired by Hungry Hobby - I had tried to get my mom's recipe to work with the homemade oat flour and couldn't get it right. Kelli's recipe was eerily similar to moms (from the 1930s) but the addition of flax is what made this work.... so a big thanks to her!

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