rye flour

Dark bread ingredient

Rye flour is flour milled from rye grain, darker and denser than wheat flour with a distinctive earthy, slightly sour flavor.

It produces heavier, moister baked goods and is essential for pumpernickel and traditional rye breads.

Rye flour contains less gluten than wheat, so bakers often blend the two: The recipe calls for half rye flour, half bread flour.

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Nordic cuisine · caraway · artisan bread · ergot · milling · dietary fiber · whole grain · molasses · threshing · loaf · complex carbohydrates · cover crop · farm to table · nutrient density · gut health · dark · dense · crust

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grain type

rye flourwhite flour

Processed wheat for baking

all-purpose flour · bleached flour · wheat flour · bread flour · cake flour

Family

flour, rye

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Top 100,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G