Thread: Who bakes bread?

I baked Friesian ryebread, started Friday night. Slow food by excellence: you soak broken rye grains overnight, next day add salt and wholewheat flour or treacle for stickiness as rye does not contain much gluten.Then bake it for 6 hours at 90 degrees Celsius. Put an ovendish filled with water underneath as you don't want it to dry out. No yeast. The flaky crust is wheatbran. I don't like the commercially available dark rye bread as it has vinegar added as a preservative. As you can tell from the stains on the breadknife this is a moist and sticky bread.



Dark rye bread has been the staple bread in Northern Europe in areas with soil too poor to grow wheat. My grandfather used to tell me that wheat bread was considered a luxury when he was young. It is said that Napoleon fed rye bread to the horses as he felt it was unfit for humans. Nowadays it is a specialty product. The missus and the children don't like it.