Walnut-Fig Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups warm water (85-100°)
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
- 3 cups sprouted red wheat flour, plus more for dusting
- 1 cup sprouted rye flour
- 2 cups chopped dried figs
- 2 tablespoons fennel seeds
- 2 tablespoons Celtic salt
- 1 cup toasted and chopped walnuts
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Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 375°.
- Stir warm water, honey, and yeast together in a small bowl until yeast is dissolved.
- Let stand about 5 minutes until bubbly.
- Place flours, 1 cup of dried figs, fennel seeds, and salt in a large bowl.
- Add yeast mixture and blend with hands until a ragged dough forms.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.
- Transfer dough to a clean bowl that has been coated lightly with olive oil.
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap.
- Let dough rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk (about 1 hour).
- Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead in the walnuts and remaining cup of figs.
- Shape dough into a ball.
- Pull seams in toward bottom to stretch and smooth the top.
- Brush a baking sheet lightly with olive oil.
- Place dough on sheet. Loosely cover with a tea towel or oiled plastic wrap.
- Let dough rise again in a warm place until almost doubled in bulk.
- Bake bread about 30 minutes until light golden brown.
- Loosely tent with foil and bake another 20-30 minutes.
- Bread is done when an instant-read thermometer inserted in the bottom registers 180°, or when a toothpick inserted in bottom comes out clean, or if bread sounds hollow when tapped.
- Transfer bread to a wire rack and cool completely before slicing.
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Rye Soda Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sprouted rye flour
- 2 1/2 cups sprouted white wheat flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse sea salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 cups whole organic buttermilk, divided
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- Preheat oven to 425 degrees (for one hour).
- Whisk together flours, salt, and baking soda in a large bowl.
- Gather mixture into a mound; create a deep well in center.
- Pour 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk into well.
- Gradually stir flour mixture into buttermilk with a wooden spoon, starting in center and working outward, until a dough forms.
- Add additional buttermilk, one tablespoon at a time if dough is dry.
- Continue adding buttermilk until you have a pliable dough, not too sticky, but not dry.
- Transfer dough to a lightly floured work surface and, with lightly floured hands, form a cohesive ball.
- Be careful not to overwork the dough.
- Pat ball into a 7-inch wide domed round or 10" long loaf shape and transfer to a baking sheet.
- Across top of shaped dough, cut a 1-inch deep X (round) or 3 slashes (loaf) with a floured knife.
- Poke holes at 1-inch intervals to bottom of dough with a floured wooden skewer.
- Bake bread 30 minutes.
- Turn bread upside down; continue baking until cooked through and loaf sounds hollow when tapped on bottom, about 10 minutes more.
- Transfer loaf to a wire rack and let cool completely, about 2 hours, before slicing and serving.
- Bread can be made 2 days ahead and stored, whole, at room temperature, in a paper bag or wrapped in parchment.
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Rye Biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup sprouted white wheat flour
- 1 1/2 cup sprouted rye flour
- 2 tbsp aluminum-free baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
- 3/4 cup lard
- 1 cup plus 5 tablespoons (full fat) milk
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- Combine first 5 ingredients and mix well.
- Cut in lard with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Add milk, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened. (If dough is too dry add more milk, 1 tablespoon at a time until you get a pliable dough consistency.)
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead lightly about 10 times.
- Roll dough to ½ inch thickness; cut with a biscuit cutter.
- Place biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes.
- Yield about 15 biscuits.
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Portuguese Mountain Rye Bread
Ingredients
- 1 cup sourdough starter
- 5 cups water
- 5 cups sprouted rye flour
- 4-6 cups sprouted spelt or wheat flour
- 1 tbsp sea salt
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- 12–24 hours before you wish to bake, put the starter in a large bowl and stir in the water. Always stirring in the same direction, stir in the rye flour 1 C. at a time, then stir in 1 C. of the spelt or wheat flour.
- Cover with a towel and set aside for 12–24 hours, longer is better.
- When you are ready to continue, stir in the salt, then begin to stir in the spelt or wheat flour 1 C. at a time. Depending on where you live and how humid it is makes a difference in how much you need. The consistency of the dough is really what matters; don’t worry too much about how much flour you use.
- Stir in the flour until the dough just begins to come together into a very sticky ball. Turn out onto a very well floured board or just the counter top and gently knead until it comes together into a still slightly sticky ball.
- Unlike a typical wheat bread, you are now done kneading. Place the dough in a well oil bowl, cover with plastic and let rise for 3 hours; it will not quite double in size.
- Place a baking stone (if you have one) in the oven and pre-heat to 500.
- When the oven has heated, place about ¼ cup flour in an 8–9 inch bowl.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Cut the dough in half (it will still be sticky).
- With lightly floured hands take one piece and transfer to the floured bowl.
- Hold the bowl with both hands and gently toss the dough around in the bowl for nearly a minute. This shapes it into a rough round.
- Invert the dough onto a peal (if using a stone) and put into the oven, or place on a floured baking sheet, repeat with the other piece of dough, and place in oven.
- After 15 minutes, lower the heat to 425 and continue to bake for another 30 minutes or so.
- When done the breads should sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.Transfer to a rack and let cool completely, or over night. Keep in a well sealed plastic bag, or freeze one for later.
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Walnut-Fig Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups warm water (85-100 degrees)
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
- 3 cups sprouted red wheat flour, plus more for dusting
- 1 cup sprouted rye flour
- 2 cups chopped dried figs
- 2 tbsp fennel seeds
- 2 tbsp Celtic salt
- 1 cup cup toasted and chopped walnuts
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Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 375°. Stir warm water, honey, and yeast together in a small bowl until yeast is dissolved. Let stand about 5 minutes until bubbly.
- Place flours, 1 cup of dried figs, fennel seeds, and salt in a large bowl. Add yeast mixture and blend with hands until a ragged dough forms. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.
- Transfer dough to a clean bowl that has been coated lightly with olive oil. Cover loosely with plastic wrap. Let dough rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk (about 1 hour).
- Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead in the walnuts and remaining cup of figs. Shape dough into a ball. Pull seams in toward bottom to stretch and smooth the top.
- Brush a baking sheet lightly with olive oil. Place dough on sheet. Loosely cover with a tea towel or oiled plastic wrap. Let dough rise again in a warm place until almost doubled in bulk.
- Bake bread about 30 minutes until light golden brown. Loosely tent with foil and bake another 20-30 minutes. Bread is done when an instant-read thermometer inserted in the bottom registers 180°, or when a toothpick inserted in bottom comes out clean, or if bread sounds hollow when tapped. Transfer bread to a wire rack and cool completely before slicing.
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