No-Knead Cinnamon Swirl Bread

On the subject of every morning for breakfast, I slather toast with butter, shower cinnamon and sugar over the prime, and present the slices to the miniature ones surrounding my kitchen table. Nothing, on the other hand, beats the valid thing: a comfy, fragrant loaf, swirled with cinnamon and sugar. The major right here is to enable the dough to rest for 20 minutes after deflating and portioning it, which relaxes the gluten, enabling it to stretch without complications, this capacity that truth precluding the need for a rolling pin.

Reprinted from my book Bread Toast Crumbs (Clarkson Potter 2017). —Alexandra Stafford

Instructions

1. Fetch the dough: In a huge bowl, hotfoot together the flour, salt, sugar, and instantaneous yeast. In a medium bowl, mix the buttermilk, the boiling water, and 1/2 cup water. Plug to combine, then add to the flour mixture, adopted by the melted butter. Mix unless the liquid is absorbed and the substances form a sticky dough ball. Duvet the bowl with a moist tea towel or plastic wrap and position aside in a warm space to upward thrust for 1 1/2 hours, or unless the dough has doubled in bulk.
2. Dispute a rack in the center of the oven and preheat it to 375° F. Grease two 8 1/2- by 4 1/2-tear loaf pans generously with the softened butter. The consume of two forks, deflate the dough by releasing it from the perimeters of the bowl and pulling it in direction of the guts. Rotate the bowl quarter turns as you deflate, turning the mass real into a rough ball.
3. Assemble the bread: Sprinkle the flour onto a orderly surface. The consume of your two forks and dealing from the guts out, separate the dough into two equal pieces. Spend the forks to dangle one half of dough onto the orderly surface. The consume of as great flour as obligatory from the skin, mud your hands and the skin of the dough, and form the mass as most sensible possible you may per chance perchance per chance perchance moreover real into a ball. Repeat with the opposite half of. Let the dough balls rest for 20 minutes without touching.
4. Mud one other orderly surface with flour. Switch one round to the prepared surface and gently stretch the dough into roughly a 10- by 15-tear rectangle. In a little bowl, mix the sugar with the cinnamon. Brush the dough with the egg wash. Sprinkle the dough with half of of the cinnamon-sugar mix. Beginning with one rapid dwell, roll it tightly real into a coil and save it in a greased loaf pan. Repeat with the closing round. Attain no longer duvet the pans. Let the coils upward thrust on the countertop conclude to the oven (or one other warm, draft-free space) for about 10 minutes, or unless the prime of the dough correct crowns the perimeters of the pans.
   
5. Switch the pans to the oven and bake for 40 to forty five minutes, unless the tops are golden brown and agency to the contact. Eliminate the loaves from the oven, flip them out onto a cooling rack, and allow them to icy on their aspects for 20 minutes earlier than cutting them.
6. NOTE: To construct cinnamon raisin bread, fleshy 1 cup of raisins in fair enough water or rum to duvet for 10 minutes. Drain and add them to the flour bowl after whisking the flour, salt, sugar, and yeast together. Toss to coat, and proceed as suggested.