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This is the second time I've baked a high percentage rye bread. The first was Hamelman's Volkornbrot; I wasn't elated with the result. ( http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/14991/christmas-baking-blisters ).  That was four years ago.

Lately--happy with my progress with sourdoughs, baguettes, challah and deli rye, and motivated by a number of other TFL'er's seemingly annual flurry of activity with Borodinsky rye Ioaves I thought I give it a go.

This is the loaf along with two slices ready to eat.  The recipe I used makes 3 loaves. 

Made some Rye bread, and thought I would show you how these came out.  Used a different recipe for this bread than I normally use.  Will Post another photo of the loaf and two slices.

These were 5 oz.  A bit big for burgers but tasty.  Used the Tangzhong method except I didn't add any sugar at all or any milk powder.

I made these and they came out fine.  I made them 4.2 oz. size.  I did make some that were  5 oz. size but a bit big for burgers.  Will post the photo of them next.  The bigger size were just as tasty toasted with butter, or whatever we desired.

  This bread uses a combination of fresh milled flour from my Nutrimill and store-bought flours.  The hard red wheat and hard white wheat were fresh milled.

I used some pecan meal I had bought during my trip to King Arthur Flour a few months ago in the starter which adds a nice nutty flavor to the final dough.  I also used some canned corn that I roasted under my broiler since corn on the cob is not in season in New York right now.

Crumb for the previously shown rye loaf.

I've been baking a bit the past few weeks.  Above is a 20% whole wheat sourdough I baked a week or so ago.  The crumb:

For our Christmas dinner I whipped up something like the Buttermilk Cluster:

Once again from Peter Reinhart's BBA, but I did change up a couple of things in this half version. I soaked 2 Tbs of dehydrated onion and 1/2 Tbs dehydrated garlic in boiling water. I reduced the amount of milk from his suggested 114g to 54g and used the onion water for the rest of the liquid.