Receta Aunt Violet's Swedish Rye Bread
Swedes have always made hearty, highly flavored breads and rye always seems to play a part, the foundation for many avenues of baking exploration.
Aunt Violet was one of my paternal grandfather's sisters. This is her recipe 'from home'. It seems each of the 7 Moller children brought fragments of family recipes with them through Ellis Island in 1912.
The overall, lapsed time is long - 4 hours, because of the rising and baking time - the actual labor involved is about 15 minutes.
Following is a basic - and unique - family recipe for an every day Swedish country-style rye bread.
Tiempo de Prep: | Swedish |
Tiempo para Cocinar: | Raciónes: 3 loaves |
Va Bien Con: Swedish meatball, korv
Ingredientes
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Direcciones
- [TIP: keep everything out of any draft during cooler weather]
- Scald the milk and add the butter to the milk
- Combine the rye and white flours (reserve the 1/2 C for kneading), salt, seeds (one or the other), brown sugar, and molasses and combine
- Cool the milk/butter to 110^ in a large mixing bowl
- Add the yeast to the milk and give it a light stir, then add all the remaining ingredients and fold together just to combine
- Onto a lightly floured board, turn out the dough, sprinkle with a little white flour and
- Knead to combine well (8-10 minutes)
- Add additional white flour while kneading until the dough does not stick to your hands or the board
- Round up the dough and let it rise in a covered greased bowl until double in size (about 40 minutes)
- Punch the dough down, fold it over on itself and return the dough to the bowl, upside down, cover and let rise for 1 hour
- Punch it down, cover, and let it rise for 20 minutes
- Preheat the oven to 350^ and grease 3 loaf pans
- Divide the dough into thirds
- Mold each loaf to the pans, cover and let rise until double (1 hour)
- Prick or score the top of each loaf
- Bake for 45-60 minutes
- The baked loaves of usually lightly wiped with margarine or butter to give a shine to the top of the bread.