Homemade Rye Bread Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is the ratio of rye flour to bread flour? ›

This recipe calls for 1 cup of rye flour and 3 cups of bread flour, and while you could play around with increasing the proportion of rye in this recipe (which is roughly 20% by weight), keep in mind that the more rye flour you use, the denser your bread will be.

The more white flour in the loaf, the higher it'll rise and the lighter its texture will be. So this is entirely up to you and your tastes. Experiment with different percentages of white flour/rye flour until you find the bread texture you like the most.

All rye breads need some wheat flour in order to properly rise, because rye is low in air-trapping gluten, so the real question comes down to the ratio of rye to white all-purpose flour.

Breads containing up to 40% rye flour are usually called “rye bread.” Jewish Sour Rye (New York Rye, Deli Rye) is a familiar example.

Rye is very low in gluten, so kneading is neither necessary nor useful. Rye does contain gluten, but in a form which is not able to form the tight, stretchy network found in wheat flour. Instead, rye relies on pentosans to hold together into dense, rustic bread.

(Rye flour can't be directly substituted for all-purpose or bread flour because it has different gluten-forming properties.)

Rye is high in fiber and gluten, which may cause bloating in people who are sensitive to these compounds. Unsuitable for a gluten-free diet. Rye bread contains gluten, making it unsuitable for people on a gluten-free diet, such as those with celiac disease. May be high in added sugar.

Rye gluten does not develop into strong and stretchy dough the way wheat gluten does and this means that any time you add rye flour to wheat flour you can expect the dough to be more fragile. It is also stickier and more absorbent. The more rye flour you have, the more pronounced the changes become.

Rye bread also contains small amounts of zinc, pantothenic acid, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, and other micronutrients. Compared with regular breads, such as white and whole wheat, rye bread is typically higher in fibre and provides more micronutrients, especially B vitamins.

If moistened rye flour is given too much time to ferment, however, amylase will degrade rye's starches. The starch will not absorb water in the expected ratio. As a result, the bread's interior will be excessively moist and gummy, sticking to the knife as it's sliced.

How to tell when rye bread is done? ›

The very best thing to do is get a probe thermometer. Bread is around 98 degrees C on the inside when it is done. Rye bread is sticky by nature. It is a little less sticky when it is made with a sourdough starter, rather than wheat.

Bread doughs made with rye, especially those with a high percentage of rye, tend to be quite sticky and—to most American bakers—harder to work with. (To make up for this, any flour that is added to a rye dough recipe will usually be high gluten bread flour.)

I discovered that substituting Organic Medium Rye Flour for 25% of the all-purpose flour in my recipes (by weight) yields baked goods with only subtle changes: slightly darker color apparent in light-colored baked goods; a mere hint of rye flavor; perhaps a little graininess in the mouthfeel.

no, bread flour is made from wheat grain andd rye flour is made with rye grain. Rye flour has a very distinctive flavor. No, bread flour is a white flour that is denser than all purpose flour. Rye flour has a particular flavor that it gets from the rye grains it is milled from.

Rye Helps Keep Sourdough Softer For Longer- Sometimes sourdough bread can have a slightly drier texture, but Rye flour can bring back some of that moistness. This is because Rye contains a higher level of a complex sugar called pentosans, which absorb larger amounts of water and retain it after baking.

They compete with the proteins that make gluten for water, and water is the substance that leads the proteins to combine to form gluten. This means that rye doughs often require a higher proportion of water than doughs in which wheat predominates.