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Sour Rye Bread

Sour Rye Bread — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

• 1.0 tbsp Yeast
• 2.0 cup Rye Sour
• 0.3333 cup Altus
• 3.0 cup First Clear Flour

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1. 1

   After tweaking numerous times a rye bread recipe from "Secrets of a Jewish Baker," the bread not only does not taste like the Brooklyn, NY, bread I grew up on, it no longer rises. Can you tell from the current form of my recipe why the yeast is being killed? Too much KA Sour? I appreciate any suggestions you may have. The recipe (made in bread machine except for shaping, final rise and oven baking) follows.

2. 2

   Everyone, here's the response I got today from King Arthur when I asked what I was doing wrong with my sour rye recipe, which was no longer rising after numerous tweaks. I was using 3 tablespoons of King Arthur's Deli Sour, which is evidently far too much: