Dilly Bread is a yummy homemade yeast bread. It’s light in texture, flavored with dill seed & dried onion, and best served warm with butter!
If you enjoy the smell and taste of homemade bread, then I enthusiastically recommend this recipe for Dilly Bread to you!
Dilly bread is a yeast bread, which means it will take a bit of “inactive prep time” to let the dough rise, but if you’ve got the time, then you’ve got to try this scrumptious bread!
The dough is interesting in that it has cottage cheese in it. I know… what? When I first saw the recipe years ago in one of my old cookbooks, I thought adding cottage cheese was odd! However, after making this loaf, I’ve found you can’t taste it, and it adds protein, too.
The bread loaf is also studded with dried dill seeds and dried minced onions, which give this bread AMAZING flavor. It’s so delicious, I can hardly keep myself from eating the entire loaf!
I think you will love this bread, which is “practically perfect” eaten on its own (with butter!), or as a side dish for a variety of meals. Here’s how to make it.
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A Little Bit Of Prep
The first thing you need to do is put the cottage cheese and butter in a small saucepan. Turn the heat to Low and heat and stir it only until the butter melts and the mixture is warm (not hot). Set the pan aside.
Next, in a separate bowl, add the active dry yeast, then add ¼ cup of warm (110°F) water. The water needs to be no hotter than this temperature or it can kill the yeast.
Stir the yeast and water together, then let it sit for 5 minutes. The yeast mix should become bubbly, indicating the yeast is alive and active.
Prepare The Dilly Bread Dough
In a large mixing bowl, combine an egg, granulated sugar, dried minced onion, dill seeds, salt, and baking soda. Stir until well-combined.
Add the cottage cheese/butter mixture to the bowl, then add the yeast mixture. Stir this, to combine the ingredients.
Add all purpose flour to the bowl, and stir to fully incorporate the flour into the wet ingredients. You will end up with a fairly stiff dough.
Time To Let The Dough Rise
Cover the bowl of bread dough very well with plastic wrap. Place the dough in a warm spot, free from drafts. Sometimes I even cover the bowl with several towels to keep it warm.
Let the dough rise for about one hour, or until it has doubled in size. Once done, use a large spoon to tap down the dough, which lets some of the air and volume out. Do not knead the dough.
Generously grease the bottom and sides of a 9″ x 5″ loaf pan (spray the pan with non-stick spray, or use oil or shortening to do this). Spoon the thick bread dough into the prepared pan, then spread the dough out, covering the bottom of the pan.
Cover the pan tightly with plastic wrap. Let the dough rise (again) in a warm place for 40 minutes, or until it has doubled in size.
Toward the end of this time, preheat your oven to 350°F, because the next step is to finally bake this delicious bread.
Bake The Dilly Bread
Now it’s time to bake the Dilly Bread… hooray! All your hard work of watching and waiting for the dough to rise will pay off (ha ha!).
Bake on a middle oven rack at 350°F. for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the top of the loaf comes out clean. The finished dilly bread should be nice and golden brown on the surface, too!
Transfer the pan to a wire rack to cool for about 15 minutes, before removing the loaf from the pan. Run a butter knife around the edges of the pan, then invert the pan. If you greased your pan really well, the loaf should practically fall out!
Finish cooling the dilly bread on the wire rack, after removing it from the pan.
Time For A Warm Slice Of Dilly Bread!
Slice the bread into 1″ slices once it is warm (and not burning hot). We love to add softened butter to each warm slice, too.
The dilly bread is absolutely DELICIOUS! There is a lot of flavor, and the bread itself is NOT dense, but light and fluffy!
I really hope you enjoy making a loaf of dilly bread for yourself and those you love. It’s one of my favorite savory bread recipes, and I really trust you’ll love it, too!
Thanks for stopping by, and I invite you to come back soon for more family-friendly recipes. Take care, may God bless you, and have a GREAT day!
Looking for More HOMEMADE BREAD Recipes?
You can find ALL of my recipes in the Recipe Index, which is located at the top of the page. I have some delicious homemade bread recipes (sweet and savory) you might enjoy, including:
- Sun-Dried Tomato Parmesan Bread
- Chocolate Chip Orange Bread
- Baked Brown Bread
- Butter-Topped Homemade White Bread
- No-Knead Mini Loaves
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Original recipe source: “A Taste Of Oregon”, page 153, published in 1980 by The Junior League of Eugene, Inc.
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Dilly Bread is a yummy homemade yeast bread. It's light in texture, flavored with dill seed & dried onion, and best served warm with butter!
- 1 cup small curd cottage cheese
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 2¼ teaspoons active dry yeast = 1 small packet
- ¼ cup warm water (110℉) NOT hot
- 1 large egg
- 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar* *generous Tablespoons!
- 2 Tablespoons dried, minced onion
- 2 teaspoons dried dill seed* *generous teaspoons!
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 2½ cups all purpose flour
Put cottage cheese and butter in a small saucepan. Heat on Low and stir only until butter melts and mixture is warm (not hot). Remove from heat; set aside.
In separate bowl, add yeast, then add ¼ cup of warm (110°F) water. The water needs to be no hotter than this temp. or it can kill the yeast. Stir to dissolve yeast, then let it sit 5 minutes. Mixture should become bubbly.
In a large mixing bowl, combine an egg, granulated sugar, dried minced onion, dill seeds, salt, and baking soda. Stir until well-combined. Add cottage cheese/butter mixture, then yeast mixture. Stir well, to combine. Add flour; stir to combine. You'll end up with a fairly stiff dough.
Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Place bowl in a warm spot, free from drafts. Let dough rise for 1 hour, or until doubled in size. Once done, use large spoon to tap down the dough. Do not knead the dough.
Generously grease bottom and sides of a 9 x 5 loaf pan (spray or use oil/shortening to do this). Spoon dough into prepared pan, then spread the thick dough out, covering bottom of pan. Cover pan tightly with plastic wrap. Let dough rise (again) in a warm place for 40 minutes, or until doubled in size.
Preheat oven to 350℉.
Bake on middle oven rack at 350°F. for 35 minutes, until golden brown, and a toothpick inserted in the top comes out clean. Transfer pan to a wire rack; cool 15 minutes before removing bread. Run a butter knife around edges of pan, then invert to remove. Cool on wire rack, after removing it from pan. Slice & enjoy!
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