Whole Grain Rye Bread Recipes

Steps:

• On Day 1, make the starter: In a medium-size bowl, mix 3/4 cup warm water with the buttermilk or yogurt. Whisk flour and yeast together, add to the buttermilk mixture and use your hands to mix together until sticky and moist; add more warm water as needed. Cover tightly and set aside at cool room temperature overnight, or up to 24 hours.
• Also on Day 1, soak the grains: Mix 4 cups cold water with the rye berries (or meal) and sunflower seeds. Cover and set aside at cool room temperature overnight, or up to 24 hours.
• On Day 2, make the bread: Drain the soaked grains in a colander. Measure 35 ounces/1,000 grams of the grains and place in a deep bowl. Add 14 ounces/400 grams of the starter and mix well. (Any remaining starter can be saved to use with other bread recipes.) Add the flour, salt, malt (or molasses), yeast and 2 cups water. Mix dough firmly by hand to combine. The dough should be grainy, but quite runny and wet, almost like a thick batter. To achieve that texture, add cold water, 1/4 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. To test: When a walnut-size piece of dough smeared on the rim of the bowl slides slowly and smoothly down the inside, like a snail leaving a trail, the dough it is wet enough.
• Thickly butter 3 medium or 2 standard-size loaf pans. Divide the dough evenly among the pans, filling them about half full. Cover and let rise at room temperature until dough almost fills pans, about 2 hours. (Dough will not rise more during baking.)
• Heat oven to 450 degrees. Bake loaves for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 360 and bake until firm and glossy brown, 80 minutes to 2 hours more depending on size and moisture content of loaves. Let cool completely in the pans before turning out. Bread freezes well, and lasts for at least a week at room temperature, wrapped in paper.

Steps:

• combine honey, molasses, salt, butter and caraway, pour boiling water over, and set aside to cool.
• Add yeast to warm water, stir to dissolve, and add to honey molasses mixture when cooled to lukewarm.
• add 2 cups of WW flour to mixture and using dough hook, mix well.
• add the remaining flours until you have a smooth dough that can be kneaded.
• Knead for 8 to 10 minutes and place in lightly oiled bowl, cover and let rise until doubled in size (about 1 1/2 to 2 hours).
• Punch down, turn out onto floured surface and knead for 2 minutes.
• Separate dough into 2 equal parts, shape to fit 2 loaf pans.
• Cover and let rise for another 1 1/2 to 2 hours until almost doubled in size.
• Bake at 375 for about 30 minutes. If tops are browning too much, cover with foil for the lase 15 minutes.
• Cool on wire racks, and enjoy with butter!
• note- I leave the loaf pans in the oven for the second rise, and then just uncover and turn on the oven to bake, I add 5 minutes to the baking time to compensate for the preheating time.

Steps:

• Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
• Butter a large bowl and set aside.
• In a large bowl combine yeast, water, sugar, egg and 3 tablespoons butter and mix on medium speed using a dough hook for one minute.
• Reduce mixer to low and add salt, flours and caraway seeds. Increase speed to med high and beat until dough comes together (10 minutes).
• Turn dough onto a lightly floured board and knead until smooth.
• Transfer dough to buttered bowl and turn to grease all sides and then cover with plastic wrap and/or a towel. Let rise in a warm place until double (1 hour).
• Turn dough onto floured board and cut into 12 equal pieces and then roll pieces into balls.
• Place balls on prepared cookie sheet and let rise for one hour.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cut an "x" in the top of each roll.
• Bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden.
• Transfer rolls to cooling rack and brush each roll with 3 tablespoons melted butter and then sprinkle with salt.

Steps:

• To soften yeast:.
• Combine in a large bowl:.
• 2 1/2 cups warm water.
• 2 scant Tbs. active dry yeast.
• Allow the yeast to proof (bubble) for 5 minutes.
• Stir in:.
• 1/2 cup oil.
• 1/2 cup honey.
• 1 Tbs. salt.
• 2 cups sprouted grains, whole or ground lightly.
• 4 cups flour (any combo of wheat, rye and white you like) Beat well. Cover and let this "sponge" sit 45-60 minutes.
• Stir down and gradually add:.
• 3-4 cups flour (any combination). Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.
• Place dough into a greased bowl, turn it over and around to coat all of the dough.
• Cover and let rise until doubled (60-90 minutes).
• Knead dough down in the bowl, divide and shape into 2-3 oblong loaves. Place in well greased loaf pans and cover.
• Let rise 60 minutes or until almost doubled.
• Bake at 375º for 35 to 40 minutes. Remove loaves from pans and cool on wire racks.

Steps:

• Heat the water and milk to lukewarm.
• Add yeast with 1 tablespoon honey to milk.
• Add 2/3 cup flour and let stand in warm place 20 minutes.
• In another bowl, mix all ingredients but egg.
• Knead 15 minutes.
• Cover with cloth and let rise 90 minutes.
• Put into greased narrow loaf pans and let rise 2 hours.
• Brush with egg.
• Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 40 minutes.

Steps:

• Add ingredients to your bread machine according to manufacturer's directions.
• Use whole wheat cycle for baking. OR use the dough cycle, and bake it in the oven. If doing this let bread rise again in greased bread pan in a warm place and cover with a damp cotten towel till the dough almost doubles.
• Bake for 35 minutes at 350 till golden. I usually remove it from the pan after 25 minutes and continue baking it on a baking stone for a crusty crust!
• Rub cold butter on the warm loaf to make it extra yummy.