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No Knead Sandwich Bread

Published: Jul 22, 2023 · Updated: Apr 30, 2025 by Marye

Simple no-knead sandwich bread is made with just 5 ingredients. A great bread for beginners because there's no kneading involved.
Total time for the recipe to be finished.Total Time 2 hours hours 10 minutes minutes
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Batter Bread with a side of butter
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First published March 15, 2020. Last updated April 30, 2025 for editorial improvements.

Batter bread next to slices with butter.
Table of Contents
  • 🎥 Video
  • 🧾 Ingredients
  • 🔪 Instructions
  • 📖 Recipe
  • 📖 Variations
  • 📚 Related recipes
  • 💬 Comments

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Bread dough has a reputation for being high-maintenance, but this one? She's chill. No kneading, no drama—just a wooden spoon, a loaf pan, and a little patience. This is the easiest yeast bread you’ll ever make, perfect for beginners or anyone who’s ever stared at a stand mixer like it personally offended them. Soft, warm, and ridiculously good fresh out of the oven, it’s made for PB&Js, buttery toast, or just tearing into with your bare hands like a carb-loving maniac. Make it once, and you’ll be smugly side-eyeing the store-bought loaves forevermore.

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I was searching and searching for a really easy recipe because I wanted to start making bread and yours is perfect! Thank you for sharing it and all of your tips!! This bread is so yummy!!!!
Melanie

🧾 Ingredients

Ingredients list for Batter Bread labeled.

All purpose flour is fine in this recipe - it's what I used. If you have bread flour you can use that if you want to. Also, either water or milk can be used as the liquid. Milk will give it slightly more nutritional value and make the crumb a little more tender. Water will give the bread a crispier crust.

🔪 Instructions

Step by step instructions for Batter Bread.

One of the things I love about this batter bread recipe is you can mix up the batter, oil the top, cover it with oiled plastic wrap (so the batter doesn't stick), and let it rise in the refrigerator overnight for the first rise. Next morning just scoop into bread pans, let rise for the second time, and bake!

📖 Recipe

Batter Bread with a side of butter

No Knead Sandwich Bread

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Simple no-knead sandwich bread is made with just 5 ingredients. A great bread for beginners because there's no kneading involved.
Course Yeast Bread
Cuisine American - Vintage
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
Rising Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes
Total Time: 2 hours hours 10 minutes minutes
Servings:12 slices
Calories:138
Author:Marye Audet-White

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water, 110F, may use milk if desired.
  • ¼ cup butter, melted and cooled
  • 2-½ cups flour, may need more or less. May substitute bread flour or 2 ¼ cups flour + 2 tablespoons gluten
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt, Kosher
  • 1 tablespoon yeast, or 1 packet. May use active dry or rapid rise

Instructions

  • Whisk together flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a large bowl.
  • Add water and butter. Stir 500 strokes or mix in a stand mixer about 5 minutes - dough will be wet and sticky.
  • Cover with a cloth and let rise until doubled - about 1 hour.
  • Stir down and scoop into greased loaf pan.
  • Let rise until doubled - 30 minutes.
  • Preheat oven to 350F.
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until done

Notes

Storage:
For best results, store leftovers tightly covered at room temperature for two days. You can also freeze bread wrapped in a double layer of plastic for up to three months.
 

Nutrition Facts

Calories: 138kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 10mg | Sodium: 229mg | Potassium: 31mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 118IU | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

This recipe has been tested several times. If you choose to use other ingredients, or change the technique in some way, the results may not be the same.

📖 Variations

There are quite a few ways to change up this no-knead bread recipe. Here are some things you can do differently!

  • First, let's talk flour. You can use all-purpose flour, bread flour, part all-purpose/part whole wheat flour, or even ground oatmeal. I have a really detailed post all about the different types of flours if you're curious.
  • Gluten is good! It helps dough rise and creates texture. So, for a fluffier kind of bread that stays fresh longer, substitute two tablespoons of whatever flour you're using for 2 tablespoons of vital wheat gluten.
  • Sugar swaps: sugar feeds yeast, which helps the no-knead bread rise. Though white sugar works just fine, you could swap it with another natural sweetener, like brown sugar, honey, agave, or syrup.
  • Speaking of yeast, you can use either active dry yeast or rapid rise.
  • Instead of melted butter, in a pinch, light-flavored vegetable oil, coconut oil, or margarine will work. Olive oil is fine but you can sometimes taste its flavor.
  • Check out this article about helping your bread rise!
Two slices of Batter bread

This no knead sandwich bread is a favorite around here. Sometimes I use a bit of honey instead of the sugar called for.

I've also used half whole wheat flour in this and it works great.

Overhead shot of Batter Bread with butter

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  1. Susan says

    February 17, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    5 stars
    This was so easy and so good! Thank you!!!! 🙂

    Reply
    • Marye says

      February 17, 2025 at 2:02 pm

      I am so glad you liked it.

      Reply
  2. Melanie says

    June 09, 2024 at 11:35 pm

    5 stars
    I was searching and searching for a really easy recipe because I wanted to start making bread and yours is perfect! Thank you for sharing it and all of your tips!! This bread is so yummy!!!!

    Reply
  3. Shari Edmands says

    December 26, 2023 at 2:09 pm

    5 stars
    This came out amazing, Marye. I used bread flour and it has a beautiful puffy shape. Thank you so, so much for this easy and perfect recipe!

    Reply
  4. Becca says

    May 05, 2020 at 12:56 pm

    5 stars
    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! Finally a bread I don't have to knead. In the past I've broken both wrists and this no knead recipe is saving me a lot of pain Good bless you and yours!❤️

    Reply
    • Marye says

      May 06, 2020 at 8:29 am

      There are actually a couple of no-knead breads on the blog... be sure to check the recipe index.

      Reply
  5. Shelley Lovato says

    April 12, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    5 stars
    Marye, I love this recipe! I've used it twice, once for loaves, and today, Easter Sunday, I used it for rolls. My new favorite! Light and fluffy, soft and delicious. Thank you!

    Reply
    • Marye says

      April 13, 2020 at 10:24 am

      Hey Shelley!
      I am so glad you like it!! Y'all stay safe.

      Reply
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