Some Facebook friends wanted instructions on how to make a rye sourdough, so what better use of a blog than this?
Anyone who seriously does want to make sourdough rye bread, here’s what you’ll need before we get started:
- A bag of wholemeal rye flour (Dove or Waitrose)
- A bottle of spring water (or use filtered water. We just don’t want chlorine as it will inhibit culture. Leaving a jug of water to breath for several hours will allow the chlorine to disappear)
- A smallish, airtight plastic container, about 1pint in capacity
- A plastic bowl scraper also very handy.
First step is to start your sourdough leaven, so don’t expect to bake any bread until five days from the outset. Once your leaven is alive, you’re up and running and you can bake a loaf in the course of one day, easily, most of that time spent waiting for nature to do its thing.…
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