I have a bunch of leftover fresh dill from a few days ago, and would like to make some bread with it. However... most of the recipes I am finding online use cottage cheese???! Firstly, I don't have any in the house, and secondly that just sounds very strange to me!

Anyone have a recipe that uses "normal" ingredients for dill bread?

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Thanks, but I've never made bread.

I do cakes, etc, but have not made any bread.

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I do have the yeast, Rita, and actually went back out to the store, so now I have some cottage cheese. Also found a pretty simple recipe online this morning, so I'll probably try it out tomorrow if we are snowbound!

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Welllllllllllll - I have decided that I just CANNOT do yeast breads!
The yeast never bubbles for me, and the dough NEVER rises properly!
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG???

This bread, while it tasted very good after baking it FOREVER, and then slicing it and putting it in the toaster oven, NEVER rose and was only an inch high!!! It was heavy and dense, and not at all like it was supposed to be. My family ate it anyway - awwwwwwwwwwwwww! I would like to give it one more try - HELP ME PEEPS???

Weezie - you first disolve the yeast in the warm water, and then you warm the cottage cheese to about 110-115*. You add that, and all the other ingredients at the same time.

hmmmm - thought I saved the recipe on my computer - will have to look it up again...

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noooooooooooooooo humidity here, Rita!
As a matter of fact, it's so @#$%^ dry in this house with the heat on, my lips are badly cracked!

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noooooooooooooooo humidity here, Rita!
As a matter of fact, it's so @#$%^ dry in this house with the heat on, my lips are badly cracked!

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That nessessarily doesn't mean it's too hot in your house, it means basically your own water intake (and NOT TAKING IN ENOUGH) and things like duretics' you're eating, like Tea, can make you pea it out faster...
*sorrrrrrrrry, didn't mean to mess up/go off topic of your bread..

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The humidity has a lot to do with Bread making and there are adjustments that need to be made when making bread on a rainy day or high humidity. I'm just not sure what they are, sorry Lynne!

I have tried to make bread on many occasions, and although I'm an excellent cook and baker in many other areas, bread making is not one of them!

I have been told that I could be killing the yeast, if the temp of the water is too hot. It says to use LUKEWARM WATER, between 90 and 100*, well, think of a swimming pool. When they tell you the pool is 80* it really doesn't feel all that warm , does it? If you have a thermometer I would think that would be the best way to accurately get the water temp right. And it sounds like they had you heat the cottage cheese up too hot! That could've killed the yeast.

I have had a few successes with bread, but only when I work at it really hard and do everything EXACTLY the way it says, so.............Good luck with your next bread adventure!

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Oh yes, Weezie's got a good tip there about the warm place for it to rise, that is another one of my problems, after killing the yeast then I freeze it to death!

I keep my house pretty cool and can never think of a warm place to let it rise(and where the cats and kids and dust won't get into it ) Weezies idea on top of the stove is an excellent one, make sure you shut the oven off though as she says to, you just want to warm up the surface a little. Another place I've heard works good, and this was in the olden days so I don't know how much heat you'd get nowadays, but it is on top of the tv. Feel it and see if it gets warm, and make sure it's not a flat screen tv cuz then it wouldn't be wide enough to hold your bowl!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CINDY!!!!!!!

hahahahaha!

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OK - I "know" how to do the yeast, it just never wants to cooperate for me! I put the dough on the stove under the light on the hood - it was the warmest place I could think of with room for it. But since the yeast never rose to begin with, it was a no go from the start...

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When I buy Yeast I make sure the expiration date on it has at least another year to go on it,, I've had bad experiences with any date on yeast less than a year to go

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Hello all!
I am an AVID bread baker and have recently come across a fabulous new way to make bread. It's called the "no knead bread" and it is literally the easiest way to make bread!
No yeast proofing, no rising at a set temp, no punching...and NO KNEADING!
We've varied the recipe by adding fresh herbs, cheeses, flax seeds, etc..and it never fails!
Try it once and you'll be hooked!
You can Google "no knead bread" or check out the step by step process on my blog: http://creamerchronicles.blogspot.com
(It's so easy that my 9 year old is making it!)

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The weird thing is... this store has moved the yeast to a refrigerated section. Previously, it was always kept in the baking aisle at room temperature. I wonder if being cold has anything to do with ruining the yeast? I've never seen it kept cold in a store before!

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Hmmmm That's odd Lynne Wonder why they would do that??? was it the Jar or the package or both??

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Did you ever try the dill bread? I haven't used fresh dill in mine, but I have used dry. I also put dill seeds in it and it gives it a rye taste. It's yummy tosted or fresh with cream cheese spread on top!
I use a bread machine to do all the work for me- I can't make bread by hand no matter how hard I try. I love the machine though- and they are pretty reasonably priced at discount stores.

'Manda

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