Polish Sourdough Rye Bread

Name: Polish Sourdough Rye Bread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 14 grams packages active dry yeast; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 2 liters bread flour; 237 milliliters buttermilk, room temperature; 1 Tbsp caraway seed; 946 milliliters rye flour; 1 Tbsp salt; 473 milliliters water; 1 teaspoon white sugar

Polish Sourdough Rye Bread is a vegetarian recipe with 3 servings. One serving contains 1755 calories, 60g of protein, and 11g of fat. This recipe covers 42% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. If you have salt, rye flour, bread flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

The night before making the bread, in a medium sized mixing bowl, dissolve one packet of yeast and the sugar in 2 cups of water.

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Bread

Sugar

Water

Yeast

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Mixing Bowl

Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes. Stir in the rye flour until the mixture is smooth. Cover and let stand overnight.

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Rye Flour

The next day, dissolve the remaining package of yeast in the buttermilk.

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Buttermilk

Yeast

Add the rye flour mixture, the baking soda, the salt, 4 cups of the bread flour and stir to combine.

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Baking Soda

Bread Flour

Rye Flour

Salt

Add the remaining 4 cups of bread flour, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring well after each addition (you may not need to add all of the flour). When the dough has become a smooth and coherent mass, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and supple, about 8 minutes.

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All Purpose Flour

Dough

Sprinkle the caraway seeds on the dough and knead them in until they are evenly distributed throughout the dough.

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Caraway Seeds

Dough

Lightly oil a large mixing bowl.

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Cooking Oil

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Place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with the oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour or until the volume has doubled.

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Dough

Cooking Oil

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Bowl

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

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Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and divide into three pieces. Form each piece into a loaf and place in 3 lightly greased 9x5 inch bread pans. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 1 hour.

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Bread

Dough

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 35 minutes or until the bottom of the loaves sound hollow when tapped.

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