What are all those little colorful bits in this bread? The big yellowish chunks are cottage cheese curds! Then there’s the fennel seeds, of course. The red flakes must be the dried garlic. Yeah, not your usual bread ingredients.
I got this batter bread recipe from my “bread bible” so, weird as it seemed (and as the batter looked before rising), I knew it would be good. It called for dried onion, but I didn’t have that. And it called for dill seed…but I didn’t have that either. Maybe next time, but maybe not.
This was all that was left after three of us had this bread with dinner (or you might say we had the dinner with this bread). It was quite delicious and not too hard to make. I can imagine countless variations. The most difficult part is that in the initial mixing it gets so sticky that you have to squeeze it in your hand to build up the gluten. Fun if you like making a mess.