Submitted by dmsnyder on April 5, 2008 - 10:23pm

Reinhart's Sunflower Seed Rye


Sunflower Seed Rye


Sunflower Seed Rye Crumb

The Sunflower Seed Rye from Peter Reinhart's "Bread Baker's Apprentice" is made with a pumpernickle rye soaker, bread flour and toasted sunflower seeds plus yeast, salt and water. It is shaped in a couronne and marked with a square around the hole with a dowel.

 Reinhart's instructions are to make a boule from the divided dough and, after resting, punch a hole in the middle and enlarge it. I shaped these couronnes by rolling them into a 24" "rope" and joining the ends. My technique in marking the loaves apparently didn't work. I did dust the grooves with rye flour, which was supposed to keep them from closing, but they sure disappeared! I don't know if I didn't make the grooves deep or wide enough or I just got too much oven spring. Whatever.

 Visual aesthetics aside, this is a very tasty bread. My wife ate a slice with apricot preserves as soon as it was cooled and declared her approval. We had some with a crab louie for dinner.

 Gotta work on that groove, because I sure like the couronne shape. It makes for a great crust to crumb ratio for crust guys like me.

David

Reinhart's Sunflower Seed Rye

Reinhart's Sunflower Seed Rye: Reinhart's Sunflower Seed Rye

Looking very good!

I have a slightly different version that works as our weekly bread. I substitue half of the rye flour with whole wheat flour, add 2 Tblspn flax seeds and substitute half of the sunflower seeds with toasted walnuts. I double the quantities and bake it in a large tin. It is a great sandwich/toast loaf.

user icon

Thanks, sitzhaki!

Your modifications sound good. I love the flavor of flax seeds and walnuts.
 
Have you tried Hamelman's Multi-grain Sourdough? From your description of your "weekly bread," it is one I think you would love. 
See:

 

 
 
David

user icon

Beautiful Loaves Both of You!

Great crumbs!  Love those walnuts!  Amazing how looks can be so different!  Yum!

Mini O

user icon

Thanks, Mini Oven!

David

Thanks

Thanks Mini O.

 

user icon

This is how the same bread

This is how the same bread turns out in Sweden. I have used toasted organic sunflower seeds and organic coarse rye. I think the differences in wheat strenght is obvius. I have made this bread two times before and both have been with somewhat less rustic results.

Too flat for my taste though...  btw. I did omit the yeast, my starter is feirce! And do notice how the upper crumb kind of resembles a grinning face.

user icon

Very nice!

Hi, Kuret.
 
That's a nice looking crumb! Yum!
 
Could you post the recipe as you modified it? Did you use a coarse rye soaker and sourdough starter? Is your sourdough a rye sour or white sourdough?
 
Thanks!
David

user icon

My formula: Soaker: 165g rye

My formula:

Soaker: 165g rye + 175g water. Firm starter: 65 g starter 100%hydration + 26g water + 74g bread flour Let this sit out over night.

Final dough: Firm starter + soaker + 260g bread flour + 11g salt + 150g water + 60g toasted sunflower seeds.

My starter is approx 10% rye and the rest white flour. The Swedish bread flour is 12% protein, this is somewhat similar to american AP flour right? I suppose this is why I end up with a very slack dough. Today I even increased the hydration and added about 180g water instead of 150 in the final dough.

I let the dough bulk ferment for about 3 hours doing about 4-5 s&f during that time. I then shape and proof for approx 90 minutes and bake 40-45 min. Although I think todays batch was somewhat under baked, made lots of mistakes today!

user icon

Thanks, Kuret!

I have made pain au levain with sunflower seeds and Reinhart's yeasted sunflower seed rye. You have sort of combined them. I bet it tastes better than either of the others. I must try it.
David

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.