History-at-home | Sweet Chestnut Bread

History-at-home | Sweet Chestnut Bread

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Sweet chestnuts (Lat. Castanea sativa), used to be a poor peoples food, especially in the southern Alps and on the island of Corsica. In order to be able to process the chestnuts into flour, the ripe...

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Ingredients

  • 600 grams of wholemeal rye flour
  • 200 grams of strong rye flour
  • 200 grams of chestnut flour
  • 2 packets of dry yeast or 1 cube of fresh yeast
  • 100 grams of sourdough
  • 1 tablespoon of salt
  • 700-750 millilitres of lukewarm water
  • Additional rye flour for kneading

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