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Rye Bread Baking

Published on August 30, 2012 By Emily. Updated on August 30, 2012

The discovery that August’s grain of the month was rye was certainly a relief.  Though I’d never worked with rye flour before, I knew I liked it, I was pretty sure I’d be able to find it and I knew what I could do with it. Much better than driving all over looking for amaranth or teff and then trying to work with it.  I knew I wanted to make rye bread.

dill rye bread

For my first attempt, I followed a recipe from Serious Eats for The Bread Bible’s Seeded Dill Rye.  Even though I’d never made rye bread before, I’m pretty comfortable with the general bread baking routine.  I skipped the instant nonfat dried milk, but used a cup and a half of milk instead of the additional water, which seemed to work fine.  Otherwise the recipe was easy to follow. I only have one loaf pan (how is that possible?) so I baked the second loaf free-form on a baking sheet, which worked perfectly.  The dill flavor isn’t as a pronounced as I might like, but the bread texture and flavor were very good.

dill rye bread slices

I decided to try something more complex for my second variety of rye bread, so I made Smitten Kitchen’s New York Deli Rye Bread.  It did take all of the 8 hours she promised, but the majority of that time was just waiting for the bread to rise.  By the time I put it in the oven I was pretty nervous that the bread wasn’t going to turn out; what would be worse than spending a whole day on a recipe only to have it fail?  My dough seemed to be flattening out more than it should (I think it spent too long rising during the second phase), but I baked it anyway.

rye bread dough

But in the end it turned out well, though a little less round than would be perfect.  Even though the recipe produced a great loaf of rye bread, I don’t expect to be making it again.  For the sake of my time, the Serious Eats recipe was just as satisfying (and it made 2 loaves!).  I just don’t have entire days available for bread baking.

smitten kitchen rye bread

Still I found myself with a beautiful loaf of bread and decided I needed to do just a bit more with it.  A quick trip to the supermarket for ingredients resulted in perfect, crispy, wonderful Reuben sandwiches, made in the George Foreman grill.

reubens

It’s possible that this month was one of my favorite’s yet.  I love baking bread and every time I do so I wonder why I don’t bake more often.  It requires a bit of time, but it’s certainly worth it and really not that hard, especially when you let the KitchenAid mixer do all the kneading.  We’ll see if this fall allows me to spend more time baking.

September is the final month in my grain of the month calendar challenge.  It’s hard to believe I’m almost done with this project.  The grain is rice and wild rice, which I’m really looking forward to trying.

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  1. Highlights: Sandwiches » Relishments says:
    September 9, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    […] Highlights: Sandwiches  Posted by Emily at 8:30 pm Sep 092012   My sandwich consumption has really decreased in the past 5 years or so.  One of the reasons I first started making hot lunches to bring to work was because I was tired of eating sandwiches every day (the other reason, of course, being my desire to reduce my meat consumption).  Growing up my mom would always put a sandwich in my school lunch; sometimes the sandwich was ham and cheese, sometimes it was turkey with mayonnaise and curry powder (a personal favorite–I’m sure the other kids thought I was weird).  In college, when I didn’t like anything else in the dining hall, I’d order a salami and provolone sandwich on a roll.  I don’t know why, but it was always good.  Even though I don’t eat sandwiches as much as I used to, I’m still a fan of a good one. The internet is certainly not short on inspiration. One of the Reubens that came out of my recent rye bread baking […]

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