Lemon Rosemary Bread Recipes

ROSEMARY LEMON BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a large bread pan and set aside.
• Whisk together flour, salt, baking powder together in a bowl. In a separate bowl mix eggs, sugar, zest of the whole lemon, rosemary, and olive oil until combined. Add the dry ingredients and the milk, and stir until just combined. Pour batter into the bread pan.
• Thinly slice the lemon, remove seeds, and place on top of the batter. Sprinkle the last tablespoon of sugar evenly on top of the lemons.
• Place loaf pan in the oven and bake for 70 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean in the center. After cooling, dust lightly with powdered sugar. Cut and serve with a sharp serrated knife.

MEYER LEMON ROSEMARY BREAD

Steps:

• Combine the flour, yeast, salt, rosemary and lemon zest in a by stirring with a wooden spoon. Add the water and stir until the dry ingredients are well-moistened and a shaggy, sticky dough has formed (I sometimes have to use my hands to lightly knead and work all the ingredients into a loose mass). Transfer the dough to a clean bowl coated with cooking spray. Cover the top of the bowl with plastic wrap. Let the dough sit at room temperature (about 70 degrees F) for 12-18 hours. After a minimum of 12 hours the surface will become dotted with bubbles - that's a sign that ingredients are fermenting and flavor is developing!
• Transfer the dough to a lightly floured work surface. Sprinkle the top of the dough with a little flour and lightly knead it with you hands for about a minute. Cover the dough with plastic wrap on your counter and let it rest for 15 minutes.
• Generously coat a tea towel with cornmeal or flour. Gently and quickly shape the dough into a ball with floured hands and place seam-side-down onto the center of the towel. Dust the top of the dough with more cornmeal (or flour) and wrap the towel loosely around the dough. Place the towel with the dough in a large bowl and let it rise until the dough has doubled in size and does not quickly spring back when you poke at it. This should take 1 ½-2 hours.
• Thirty minutes before the dough is ready, place a 2 ¾-quart up to a 5 quart cast iron pot in the oven and preheat the oven to 450°F.
• Once your oven is preheated, carefully remove the pot from the oven. Open the towel and slide your hand underneath so that you can turn the dough mound seam-side-up into the pot. Give the pot a little shake to make sure the dough is even on the bottom and put the lid on top of the pot. Bake for 30 minutes, then uncover and bake an additional 15-30 minutes until the boule is golden brown all over and sounds hollow when you tap it with a wooden spoon.
• Remove the pot from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes. Carefully remove the bread from the pot and let cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.

BEST HOMEMADE LEMON BREAD

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350° (180° celsius), grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and 1 1/4 cups of sugar, add the softened butter and with a pastry blender or fork blend together until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in the lemon zest.
• In a small bowl add the eggs and beat lightly with a fork, add the milk and beat until combined. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until the flour is moistened. Do not over mix.
• In prepared loaf pan add the batter and bake for approximately 60 minutes, (this all depends on the oven, could be a little more or a little less) or until tooth pick comes out clean. Cool 15 - 20 minutes then move to a wire rack to cool completely.

ALMOST-FAMOUS ROSEMARY BREAD

Steps:

• Stir the yeast, sugar and 1/4 cup warm water in a large bowl (or in the bowl of a stand mixer). Let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes.
• Add 1 tablespoon olive oil, the flour, 1 1/2 tablespoons rosemary, the fine salt and 3/4 cup warm water; stir with a wooden spoon (or with the dough hook if using a mixer) until a dough forms.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead, dusting lightly with flour if necessary, until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. (Or knead with the dough hook on medium-high speed, adding a little flour if the dough sticks to the bowl, about 8 minutes.)
• Brush a large bowl with olive oil. Add the dough, cover with plastic wrap and let stand at room temperature until more than doubled, about 2 hours.
• Brush 2 baking sheets with olive oil. Generously flour a work surface; turn the dough out onto the flour and divide into 4 pieces. Working with one piece at a time, sprinkle some flour on the dough, then fold the top and bottom portions into the middle. Fold in the sides to make a free-form square. Use a spatula to turn the dough over, then tuck the corners under to form a ball. Place seam-side down on a prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough, putting 2 balls on each baking sheet. Let stand, uncovered, until more than doubled, about 2 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Bake the loaves 10 minutes; brush with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil and sprinkle with the kosher salt and the remaining 1/2 tablespoon rosemary. Continue baking until golden brown, about 10 more minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool. Serve with olive oil seasoned with pepper.

LEMON ROSEMARY BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Place the flours, zest, rosemary, salt and yeast in the bowl of a heavy duty stand mixer.
• 2. Whisk the dry ingredients thoroughly to mix the flours and distribute the zest, rosemary, yeast and salt.
• 3. Combine the water, cider and olive oil and add to the dry ingredients.
• 4. Use the flat paddle of the stand mixer to combine the ingredients. Remove the paddle and let the ingredients "autolyze" for 20 to 30 minutes. This allows the flours to hydrate and the gluten to start to develop.
• 5. Using the dough hook, knead the dough on medium low speed for 12 minutes. Remove the dough hook.
• 6. At this point, you will have a quite sticky dough. Allow it to rise in the mixing bowl (covered) until it has tripled in size, about 1 1/2 hours.
• 7. Carefully scrape the dough from the bowl onto a well-floured counter. Shape it gently into a loaf shape by gently pulling the sides under the bottom.
• 8. Since this is a fairly slack dough, it will need some support to maintain its shape. Choose a pan to bake it in depending on the final shape you desire. An oval gratin or fish pan works well. Butter the pan and line the bottom with parchment paper to prevent the bread from sticking.
• 9. Allow the bread to at least double in size again in the baking pan, about 30 minutes.
• 10. Preheat the oven to 450F and bake the bread for 45 minutes. Turn the oven off. Remove the bread from the pan, set it on the oven shelf, allowing the bread to sit in the cooling oven for another 15 minutes.
• 11. Cool the bread on a rack.

ROSEMARY-LEMON NO-KNEAD BREAD

Steps:

• In large bowl, combine flour, yeast, salt, rosemary and zest.
• Add 1 5/8 cups water, stir until blended (dough will be shaggy and sticky)
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Let dough rest at warm room temperature (70F) until surface is dotted with bubbles (12-18 hours) Pleace dough on lightly floured surface.
• Sprinkle dough with flour, fold dough over onto itself once or twice.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest 15 minutes.
• Using very little flour, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat smoot cotton towel with cornmeal.
• Put dough, seam side down, on towel. dust with more flour or cornmeal. Cover with another towel; let rise until dough is more than double in size and does not readily spring back when pokked with a finger, about 2 hours.
• t least 30 minutes before dough is ready, put 2 3/4 quart cast-iron pot in oven; preheat oven to 450°F.
• Remove pot from oven.
• Slide hand under towel; turn dough over, seam side up, into pot; it's OK if it looks messy.
• Cover with lid; bake 30 minutes.
• Uncover, bake until loaf is browned, 15-30 minutes more.
• Set pot on wire rack; cool 10 minutes.
• Using oven mitts, turn pot on side; gently turn bread, it will release easily.

LEMON ROSEMARY BREAD WITH PECANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a loaf pan with butter-flavored cooking spray. Stir together flour, sugar, walnuts or pecans, baking powder, rosemary, salt and lemon zest in mixing bowl on low. In a separate bowl, whisk eggs,then whisk in wine or apple juice, and olive oil, then stir into dry ingredients. Use a spatula to scrape bottom and sides and fold in. Pour the batter into prepared pan scraping all of the batter out with a spatula, and smooth the surface. Bake 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. My oven took exactly 55.

LEMON-ROSEMARY MARMALADE

Steps:

• Using a vegetable peeler, peel lemons into wide strips. With a sharp knife, carefully remove white pith from peels. Cut peels into 1/4-in. strips. Set fruit aside., Place lemon strips in a small saucepan; add water to cover and 1/4 teaspoon baking soda. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium. Cook, covered, 10 minutes; drain. Repeat with remaining baking soda., Cut a thin slice from the top and bottom of lemons; stand lemons upright on a cutting board. With a knife, cut outer membrane from lemons. Working over a bowl to catch juices, cut along the membrane of each segment to remove fruit. Squeeze membrane to reserve additional juice., Place lemon sections and reserved juices in a Dutch oven. Stir in 7 cups water and lemon peel. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 25 minutes. Add sugar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 40-50 minutes or until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; immediately stir in rosemary and, if desired, food coloring., Ladle hot mixture into five hot half-pint jars, leaving 1/4-in. headspace. Wipe rims. Center lids on jars; screw on bands until fingertip tight., Place jars into canner with simmering water, ensuring that they are completely covered with water. Bring to a boil; process for 10 minutes. Remove jars and cool.