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For those of you who love rye bread and miss it desperately, this is a good alternative. The secret to the flavour is the molasses, cocoa , and caraway. Try it and see if it isn’t really, really close to the real thing!
1 packet active dry yeast
1 T Molasses
1/2 c warm water
2 Tbsp caraway seeds
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 c sugar
1/4 c shortening
2 1/2 cups buttermilk, at room temperature
2 c (8oz or 227g) Better Batter All Purpose Flour
3/4 c teff flour
1/4 c sorghum flour
1 Tbsp Cocoa
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease an 8×4 inch loaf pan.
In a small saucepan heat water and caraway seeds. Let steep for 20 minutes. Strain thoroughly and let cool till warm.
In a small bowl, combine yeast, molasses and warm water.
Let sit for about 5 minutes, or until foamy.
In the bowl of your mixer, combine baking soda, salt, sugar, shortening, and buttermilk. Add yeast mixture. Add flours and cocoa and beat on high speed for 3 minutes.
Spoon into a greased loaf pan and let rise until about 30 minutes.
Bake for 35-55 minutes, or until loaf is very golden brown.
Turn onto a rack to cool completely. Loaf should sound hollow when you tap the crust.
Hi Naomi! We tried this bread, but had some problems with the recipe. The ingredients list include shortening and cocoa things that aren’t in the written portion and the written portion talks about honey and vegetable oil but there are no quantities for those. We followed the ingredient list, and it turned out great, but you might want to rectify the recipe at some point.
PS – We love your flour!
I tried this recipe twice today. When I poured the batter, which seemed wetter than other bread recipes it almost filled one 8×4 pan. When it did rise, it only did by about .5 inches. The bread was super gooey inside after 60 minutes of baking. Wanting to make rubens but was highly frustrated when neither batch turned out. I noticed the previous post which mentioned honey and vegetable oil. Neither one is in the recipe. Any suggestions?
we’ll look into this one for you and find out what may be going on. We dont’ see any honey or vegetable oil in this recipe – which is as it should be! My best guess is that your oven isn’t calibrated properly, your yeast may be dead, or that you may have mismeasured an ingredient.
I’ll personally go back and make this and see if the recipe doesn’t work for me. If that’s the case, I’ll be happy to authorize a credit for you.
Naomi