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Rye Bread

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. a teaspoonful of soda
  2. Water
  3. White bread
  4. Salt
  5. Sugar
  6. Two cups Indian meal
Contains Gluten Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. Two cups Indian meal, scalding water, a small cap of white bread sponge, sugar, salt, a teaspoonful of soda, rye.
  2. Make the Indian meal into a thick batter with scalding water;
  3. when cool add the white bread sponge, a little sugar and salt, and the soda, dissolved.
  4. In this stir as much rye as is possible with a spoon;
  5. let it rise until it is very light;
  6. then work in with your hand as much rye as you can, but do not knead it, as that will make it hard;
  7. put it in buttered bread tins, and let it rise for about 15 minutes;
  8. then bake it for 1^^ hours, cooling the oven gradually for the last 20 minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Cake tin
  • Wooden spoon