Millie Feather at Allrecipes.com shared her family's recipe for Caraway Rye Bread and when I read that it had been in her family's recipe book for over 45 years, I just had to try it. I have been delving into Old-World recipes for the last two months and because of my fibromyagia, I can't make dough by hand but I can using my breadmaker!
If you do not have a breadmaker, just follow Millie's directions. You will need rye flour which is not always easy to find. I could only get a 5 lb bag that cost me $7! Yet when I was looking at the Caraway Rye Bread in the baking section of the grocery store, one old dry loaf was going for $4. This one recipe gives me two loaves of bread and it is super moist, unlike any Caraway Rye Bread I have ever eaten before.
The only real change I made to the recipe was to add 1/4 cup of all purpose flour when I saw that the dough was very wet and I used around 1 1/2 tsp of breadmaker yeast. I put the ingredients in the machine in typical breadmaker order: wet ingredients, sugar, salt, flour, herbs/spices and then the yeast. The yeast always goes in last. My Black & Decker Horizontal Bread Maker
lets the ingredients sit for around 15 minutes for everything to come to room temperature and then it started to knead and did all of the work for me. In just a couple of hours the dough was ready and I divided it up and put each loaf into a cake pan and then baked them in the oven. I made the best pastrami sandwiches in the world with this bread:
I do not think I can ever go back to the dry, crumbly Caraway Rye Bread I used to get at the bakery after eating this heavenly bread. Now that I have the rye flour I have all the ingredients in my pantry to make this at any time for zero cost.
Homemade food is the best!
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Oh, my goodness! I want to come over and try that bread so badly! Rye with caraway is one of my favourites.
Inspired by you, Justin and I are thinking about getting a breadmaker. If we go for it, this will be one of the first things we try!
bread looks great :) xoxo
It looks delicious!
I tell you, once you make your own bread you will never want to buy from the store again. I know bread is high in carbs but if I'm going to eat it, it had better be worth it. I hope you get the breadmaker Jamie, you would LOVE this bread!
Thanks Vedrana and Tracy! I'm glad you like the look of the bread, wish I could share it with you in person. :)
Looks fabulous Suzie, I'll have to try this in my breadmaker. I love rye bread.
Thanks Julie! Make sure to add a little extra flour if dough is looking super wet. It's so good though!
The bread looks delicious, almost as delicious as having you back! :)
Hi Suzie. I'm so glad your back!! I've been thinking about you and wondering how you were.
Thanks Genie! For both compliments. :)
Shell, it's so great to hear from you. I've missed you! I hope you have been doing well.
Hi Suzie,
I just wanted to let you know I've got an award for you :)
Hello!!! So glad you are emerging again:) I missed your posts. That bread looks amazing!
That looks so amazing. I can almost feel the chewy texture in my mouth!
I am so glad you are back! I don't care if you come visit my blog or not. That was never a concern for me. Yay! Food!
Thank you Jamie! Love the award and you deserve it too.
Missed you too Alice, it's nice to be back.
Kim, the texture is out of this world. We are spoiled rotten, can't go back to the store-bought loaves.
Thanks so much Kim, I'm glad you are happy I am back and can visit me again in my online kitchen. I am making you a cup of tea!
Oh Lordy, this looks fabulous. I buy Caraway Rye at a Saturday market for 3.75 that is just awesome but at that price I thought to make my own in my own breadmaker. I've never actually baked a loaf in the real oven in my life but I'm going to give it a go.
A question, I will bump up the flour by 1/4 cup and when it comes out of the breadmaker do you have to let it sit in the pans before it goes into the oven or can you just pop it in?
Hey Anon, sorry for the delayed response. Been crazy here for a bit with my Mom's visit! I would definitely recommend letting it rise in the pans for half an hour before popping it in the oven. Good luck!
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