Salt Sticks

Name: Salt Sticks
Yield: Makes 32
Ingredients: ½ cup water; ½ cup warm (110-degree) water; 1 package dry yeast; 1 tablespoon salt; 2 teaspoons plus a pinch of sugar; 1 cup rye flour; 1 cup gluten flour; 1 egg white, beaten with 1 tablespoon warm water; 2¾ cups all-purpose flour, or as needed; 1 tablespoon lard or unsalted butter; 1 cup skim milk; 4 teaspoons coarse (kosher) salt; 4 teaspoons caraway seeds

Preparation info

Makes
32

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Better Than Store-Bought

By Helen Witty and Elizabeth Schneider

Published 1979

About

A childhood memory of frequently being favored with chewy salt sticks in a neighborhood bakery prompted us to re-create this old-fashioned Central European bread. Perhaps your children will enjoy the exacting task of unfurling a crusty baked salt stick without making any tears (and rolling up the raw dough, too, for that matter).

Ingredients

1 cup skim milk
1 tablespoon lard or unsalted butter
½

Bread
Vegetarian

Method

In a saucepan, heat together the skim milk, lard or butter, water, salt, and 2 teaspoons sugar until the fat melts. Let cool to 110 degrees in the large bowl of an electric mixer.
Meanwhile, combine the warm water, pinch of sugar, and yeast in a bowl and let stand un