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NY Deli Rye, (once again) baked Forkish style

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Skibum

NY Deli Rye, (once again) baked Forkish style

Greeting fellow bakers and happy Canada Day to our Canadian friends and happy Presidents Day to my American friends!

Sorry for the repetition, but this P. Reinhart recipe has become my favourite sandwich loaf. I use a whole light rye starter and it is delicious sandwich bread!

I have baked this recipe in a loaf pan, free standing in the oven with the pizza stone but this time decided to try baking in a hot cast iron Dutch oven, 20 minutes covered and 20 minutes uncovered.

Now Forkish style invlolves proofing in the banneton seam side down and baking seam side up. On this bake, the way the seams broke down, the finished loaf had less loft the the final proofed dough. So when I next bake this bread, I will proof seam side up and bake seam side down. I hope this change in method will give the dough more volume.

Happy baking! Ski

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DesigningWoman

The bread looks great, but the sammich looks superb (sniff!)

Enjoy it and keep on baking,

Carole

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Skibum

It is nice baking great b read isn't it?

Happy baking! Ski

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DesigningWoman

I've never eaten so much bread in my life! It used to take two of us a week to finish a baguette ?

This is much more fun. And oh-so-therapeutic! 

I remember now, I was going to try the pulla you posted . Soon.

Keep on baking, 

Carole 

BTW, what if you used a smaller pot?

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Skibum

Smaller pot? Yes, I was thinking that the loaf didn't gain height, but spread wide. Not a problem as the resulting loaf was fine, but it speaks to baking this recipe as a pan loaf. Then the perhaps the spread goes up. I will let you know next bake. My refrigerated rye/onion starter should be quite ripe in a week. YUMM!

YES Carole, you MUST bake pulla!

Happy baking! Ski

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SweetBreads

Hi Ski,

I am intrigued by your mention of a rye/onion starter.  Did you start out with a wheat starter that you converted to rye and then add in onion?  Or did you start with rye as the flour of choice when you first harvested the wild yeast?  How do you add the onion to the starter?  Do you grate it?

So many questions...

Mom is huge fan of rye bread.  With her recent gluten sensitivity, I am starting to explore gluten-free bread baking.  I would love to get my hands on some more triticale grain to see if the wheat component of this hybrid triggers the same reaction in her as pure modern wheat.  I am hoping it doesn't because the structure provided by the triticale might help the rye bread rise better than 100% rye flour.  She is not quite the fan of dense textured Vollkornbrot that I am. Anything to provide the lightness of deli rye, would be great!

Cathryn

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Skibum

I made my rye starter using about 40g whet starter and added 72g rye flour and 72g water. Do this feed three days in a row and on day four, you are ready to bake.

For this recipe the onions are diced and sauteed in EVOO until soft and added to the rye starter. Hope this helps.

Ski