Walnut Wholewheat Bread

Le Pain de Noix

Preparation info
  • 2

    Medium Loaves
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      5 hr

Appears in

By Roy Andries De Groot

Published 1973

  • About

Since the lower slopes of the Alps and the Dauphiné Plain to the west of the city of Grenoble are the main centers in France for the growing of walnut trees, it is hardly surprising that Mademoiselle Ray bakes a superb wholewheat whole-nut walnut bread. She gives it the strong character of the nuts by first blending into the dough a substantial amount of finely ground nutmeats and then folding in the uncut nut halves. The dough itself is made with a relatively coarse wholewheat flour, so th