Polish Beer Rye Bread

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

Rye breads are so inherent to the cuisine of Poland that the word chleb, which translates to “bread,” is what every loaf that has even a small amount of rye flour in it is called. Since my tester Mary Anne is Polish and rye breads are her favorite, we had to make a rye that combined the complex rye flavor with a very savory sourdough-like aroma during baking, just like in a professional bakery. This is a very light rye, so it is good for sandwiches. This bread garner