Bauernbrot (German Farmhouse Bread)

Name: Bauernbrot (German Farmhouse Bread)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 400 g rye flour (type 1150); 300 g wheat flour (type 1050); 1 pack dried yeast (7 g); 15 g salt; 1 tsp bread spice (ground caraway, coriander and fennel); 150 g rye sourdough starter; 450 ml lukewarm water; 2 tbsp rye flour for dusting

A German farmhouse loaf of the kind that comes to the breakfast table all over Germany: a robust rye and wheat sourdough bread with a little yeast that takes its shape in a proving basket. Under the cracked, thickly floured crust sits a moist, aromatic crumb scented with caraway, coriander and fennel. The recipe makes one loaf of about 1.

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Cook time

90 min

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Servings

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Ingredients

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Nutrition

per serving

214 kcal

Calories

6 g

Protein

1 g

Fat

44 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 12 servings

Estimated cost~€0.50 · ~€0.05/serving

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Instructions

1
Mix the rye flour, the wheat flour, the dried yeast, the salt and the bread spice in a large mixing bowl. Add the rye sourdough starter and the lukewarm water and knead everything to a soft, slightly sticky dough.
2
Cover the dough and leave it to rise in a warm place until it has grown noticeably.
3
Turn the dough out onto a floured work surface, knead it through briefly and shape it into a taut ball with floured hands.
4
Line a proving basket or a bowl with a cloth, dust it generously with the rye flour for dusting and lay the loaf in it seam side up. Cover and leave to prove until fine cracks show in the flour.
5
Preheat the oven in good time to 250 °C conventional heat, standing an ovenproof dish of hot water on the oven floor.
6
Turn the loaf out onto a baking tray lined with baking paper, score the surface crosswise with a sharp knife and start baking on the lower shelf.
7
Turn the temperature down to 200 °C conventional heat and bake the bread through; it must sound hollow when you tap the underside.
8
Leave the bread to cool completely on a wire rack and only cut into it then.