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Dark rye w/ caraway seeds

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Royall Clark

Dark rye w/ caraway seeds

I made my first rye bread this week. The recipe was posted on "allrecipe.com" and used it only because it was a faster recipe to do as this was done on the spur of the moment.

 

 

 

2-1/4 cups water

1/4 cup molasses

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 teaspoons salt

4 cups bread flour

3 cups rye flour

 

The bread turned out very nice (sorry no photo this time) the final proof was in wicker baskets and looked great! The problem I had was when the the boules came out of the oven, the slashes opened up so big that the boules went a bit out of round! Is this due to the slash being too deep (I got a bit heavy with the serated knife) or maybe due to the bread not proofing long enough? Let me know if more information is needed to help get an answer. Oh,  I had let the dough rise about an hour with a kitchen temp. of about 80*. The proof time was about 45 minutes.

 

Aloha,

Royall

1/4 cup and tablespoons packed brown

sugar

2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa

powder

3 teaspoons caraway seed

14g of ADY