Recipe: Old World Black Bread

Recipes using Fleischmann's Yeast

Old World Black Bread Ingredients

• 3 3/4 cup rye flour
• 3 3/4 cup white flour
• 2 package dry yeast
• 1/2 cup water, warm
  
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 tbsp caraway seed
  
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp instant coffee crystals
• 1/4 cup dark corn syrup
• 1/4 cup butter

To make Old World Black Bread

1. Mix the rye and white flour together in large bowl, reserve 3 cups of this.
2. Sprinkle the yeast over the warm water and stir until dissolved.
3. Stir the reserved 3 cups flour in with the cocoa powder, sugar, caraway, salt, and instant coffee.
4. In medium saucepan heat 2 cups water, vinegar, corn syrup, and butter over low heat, until just warm (just until butter softens). Add flour and cocoa powder mixture and blend well.
5. Add the yeast to this mixture, combine in heavy mixer, stir in rest of flour 1 cup at a time until dough doesn’t cling.
6. Let dough rest 10 minutes then knead dough for 15 minutes.
7. Grease bowl and dough, cover and let rise 1 hour or double. Punch down, cut in half to make into 2 loaves. Form the Black Bread Dough, and place each half into a greased loaf pan. Cover the pans, and let rise again until double.
8. Bake at 375° F. for about 40 minutes.