Breads & bakes

Sourdough rye bread

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Makes
Makes 2 loaves
Oven
200 °C200 °C (400 °F)

Ingredients

Sourdough starter

  • 100 g rye flour3½ oz rye flour
  • 150 g súrmjólk (Icelandic soured milk; use buttermilk)5½ oz súrmjólk (Icelandic soured milk; use buttermilk)
  • ½ tsp salt

Bread

  • 50 g fresh yeast (or about 17 g instant dry yeast)2 oz fresh yeast (or about 17 g instant dry yeast)
  • ½ litre Malt drink, lukewarm (Icelandic Malt is a sweet, dark, non-alcoholic malt drink; use Supermalt, Vitamalt or a dark malt beer.)2 cups Malt drink, lukewarm (Icelandic Malt is a sweet, dark, non-alcoholic malt drink; use Supermalt, Vitamalt or a dark malt beer.)
  • 3 tsp salt
  • ½ kg rye flour1 lb rye flour
  • 300 g plain flour11 oz plain flour

Method

Sourdough starter

  1. Mix together and leave on the kitchen counter for 2 days.

Bread

  1. Stir the sourdough starter into the lukewarm Malt, then the yeast, and finally all the dry ingredients.
  2. Leave to rise for 1 hour.
  3. Knead and shape into 2 loaves.
  4. Put the loaves side by side in a rectangular tin, brushing oil between them so they come apart after baking.
  5. Leave to rise for at least 45 minutes.
  6. Prick the surface with a fork, then brush with lukewarm water.
  7. Bake at 200°C for about 1¼ hours on the second-lowest shelf of the oven.Bake at 400 °F for about 1¼ hours on the second-lowest shelf of the oven.
  8. Cover the loaves with a cloth while they cool so the crust doesn't get so thick and hard.

As she wrote it

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♥ Rúgbrauð úr súrdeigi (2 stk.)
Súrdeig: 100 gr. Rúgmj - 150 gr. súrmjólk 1/2 tsk. salt:
bl. saman, geymt á borði í 2 sólarhringa.
50 gr. ger - 1/2 L. Malt - 3 tsk. salt 1/2 kg. Rúgmjöl - 300 gr. hveiti
Hræra súrd. út í volgu Malti → ger → allt þurrefni. Hefast í 1 klst. Hnoða, búa til 2 brauð Sett í ferk. mót, pensla á milli brauðanna með olíu, hefast í 45 min + Stinga yfirborðið m/gaffli og pensla svo með volgu vatni. 200°c í ca. 1 1/4 klst. næst neðst. Hylja með klút á meðan kólnar kólnar svo skorpan verði ekki eins þykk og hörð