Swedish Boiled Bread

A homemade bread recipe for Swedish Boiled Bread.

SwedishVegetarianIntermediate240 min

Ingredients

Servings
4
  • 0.6 oz dry yeast or 50g cake yeast
  • 3 1/2 cup rye flour (0.9 liters)
  • 0.6 cup dark corn syrup (0.15 liters)
  • 1 tsp salt (5 ml)
  • 1 1/2 cup lukewarm water (0.4 liters)
  • 3 1/4 cup wheat flour (0.8 liters)

Instructions

  1. 1

    Mix well the yeast, rye flour, corn syrup, salt and water.

  2. 2

    Then, mix in, little by little the wheat flour.

  3. 3

    Knead the dough.

  4. 4

    Rub a thin layer of fat on the inside of a stainless steel bowl, powder the inside with flour and put the ball-shaped dough in the bowl.

  5. 5

    Now, put a lid on top of the bowl, which shall be large enough so that the lid will not touch the dough.

  6. 6

    Put the bowl in a pot, fill up with water to 2/3 of the height of the bowl, and boil for 4 hours.

  7. 7

    Fill up with water to 2/3 every now and then, but be careful never to get any water into the bowl.

  8. 8

    If possible, keep a lid on the pot while boiling.

  9. 9

    The bread will rise while being boiled, but will be a rather compact bread.

Tags

americangranny-white-breadswedish

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