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Russian Black Bread

17 September 2009 5 Comments

WOW! I finally made it! I finished the new challenge of our dear Bread Baking Babes.

Görel of Grain Doe was Kitchen Babe of the month this time and came up with a fabulous dark bread (I love rye breads!!): Russian Black Bread

It took me a while longer to prepare the bread than I thought because “Harry” my rye sourdough seemed to feel a bit neglected during my vacation and so he was not happy to see me and needed some more fuss and loving than I expected. But in the end we are friends again ;o)

Other than that the bread was really easy to prepare except for the dough to be a bit more sticky than I like my doughs that I have to work with…

The only change I made this time was that I used whole rye flour and substituted the breadflour with a spelt/rice flour mix (…the wheat, you know *smile*)

So here I present you my baby:

Looks nice, huh?

I think I should have given him a bit more time to rise before baking but with spelt flour you better be safe than sorry with proofing times.

I like the texture and the taste of the bread very much. Had two slices this morning with butter and it was great!!

Thanks Görel for the recipe and the challenge!

Did you try this bread yet? No?
Go and have a look at all the other gorgeous Bread Baking Babes’ Black Russians here:

5 Comments »

Baking Soda said:

Wow indeed! You sure made yourself an extra challenge using rye and spelt, resulting in such a loaf? Deep bow! Excellent work

# 18 September 2009 at 8:27 AM

Lien said:

Great loaf Astrid, you made it happen again!
glad you’re on speaking terms again with Harry!

# 19 September 2009 at 11:34 AM

Görel said:

That’s a happy bread! I bet it’s so happy because it has spelt in it, don’t you think? Thanks for baking with us! You’re part of the roundup because I’m so late! :)

# 19 September 2009 at 8:00 PM

kitikata-san said:

Oh, that bread does look so pretty! Did you learn how to bake bread on your bake-kay-shun? LOL, really though, I hope you post more bay-kay-shun photos, your other ones on the other blog are so nice!

# 19 September 2009 at 11:22 PM

Madam Chow said:

Yes, it looks great! I loved this bread, and liked the idea of using up old scraps, as well.

# 20 September 2009 at 10:14 PM