There's great regional variation in
Finnish rye breads, and big emotions are involved when people start to explain why the baking should be done in a certain way.
Finnish rye bread shouldn't involve much more than three ingrdients: rye flour, salt, and water, and apart from those all it takes is a sourdough starter and a bit of time and patience.
Really good and spicy, this goes well with potato bread and alfalfa sprouts like in the photo, and is even better with
Finnish rye bread.
Not exact matches
I mostly use
rye flour when I bake
bread and caraway seeds is a classic spice to use in
Finnish breads!
No one in my family used to bake
rye bread, so this recipe is a combination of many I found online and in cookbooks — mainly one great little book called Suomen maakuntaleivät (
Finnish Regional
Breads) by a
Finnish celebrity cook from the eighties, Jaakko Kolmonen.
It gets its deep flavor from liquid smoke and fresh sage, and goes especially well with a
bread that has a lot of flavor of its own — like the dried
Finnish sour
rye bread pictured below.
Fresh egg salad, chilled and on some dark
rye Finnish bread is the best.