Tarentaise Dark Bread

Pain Bis de la Taremtaise

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Savoie: The Land, People, and Food of the French Alps

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups leaven
  • 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
  • ½

Method

Mix the dry yeast into the leaven and let stand 30 minutes; then add the cumin and caraway seeds and follow the general directions to prepare the dough, letting it rise in a bowl greased with the oil, shape and bake it. The teaspoon of yeast is added to help the heavy dough rise more easily by producing additional carbon dioxide, since the only gluten-con