A delicious quick and utterly simple bread loaf to make, our Easy No-Knead Brown Linseed Bread Recipe is full of delicious linseed with a touch of honey, a super straightforward recipe we hope you’ll enjoy all summer long. We’ve been making it here for a few weeks and we think it’s our new house favourite. No kneading, no shaping, no stretching. Just mix in a bowl, spoon it into the tin, leave to rise then bake. We snip the top with scissors giving it a TinTin-like quiff on the top. “Perhaps we should call it our TinTin Tin Loaf”, says Faith in the office here at BakeryBits. Love that idea!

The recipe is based on the original no-knead, just-stir Wholemeal Loaf recipe from remarkable Doris Grant (1905-2003) in her ground-breaking book Your Daily Bread, published in 1944, which used just wholemeal flour, muscovado sugar, yeast, salt, and very warm water... with everything stirred together with a wooden spoon. The recipe became known as "The Grant Loaf", renowned not just because of it's no-knead, just-stir method, but also in its encouragement that people think about what flour goes into their bread, and buy the best. 

Makes one large loaf

Method

Take a 2lb loaf tin, like this one here, and rub the inside well with butter. Then sprinkle a little flour on the bottom to help stop the bread sticking.

Put the water, yeast, honey, and linseed in a mixing bowl and whisk together with your Danish dough whisk.

Then add the wholemeal and white flour with the salt, and stir together into a really thick batter. Beat it about 20 times with the Danish dough whisk. It'll look like porridge, and that's a good thing.

Then scrape the mixture into the tin.

Sprinkle the top heavily with linseed, then leave at room temperature for 45 minutes.

Heat the oven to 200C fan. Leave until the loaf has reached the top of the tin.

Give the risen dough three slashes with your dough scoring knife and then bake for about 35 – 40 minutes until a rich golden brown on the top and pulling away from the sides of the tin. Remove from the oven, carefully remove from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.