Rye Flour

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Published 2025

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Next to white and whole wheat, rye is the most popular flour in bread making. Because rye flour does not develop much gluten, breads made with it are heavy unless some hard wheat flour is added.

Rye flour is available in three shades, light, medium, and dark. Rye meal, or pumpernickel, is a coarse meal made from the whole rye grain.

Rye blend is a mixture of rye flour and hard wheat flour.