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Sourdough starter mix, the base of most Finnish rye bread. Rye bread, known as ruisleipä, is a popular dark and sour bread in Finland, distinguishing itself from German rye breads by its less greasy and moist texture and differs from Swedish rye breads by not being sweet and lacking spices like caraway.
Kalakukko (Finnish: [ˈkɑlɑˌkukːo]) is a traditional Finnish dish from the region of Savonia made from fish (e.g., perch, vendace, loach, smelt, or salmon) baked inside a loaf of bread. Kalakukko is especially popular in Kuopio, capital city of the Northern Savonia region. Kuopio is home to many kalakukko bakeries.
Ruisreikäleipä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈrui̯sˌrei̯kæˌlei̯pæ], rye hole-bread) is a kind of Finnish bread, a flat rye flour loaf with a hole in the middle. It is sometimes referred to as reikäleipä ( [ˈrei̯kæˌlei̯pæ] ), shorter term without ruis (rye) which applies also to the oat loaf with a hole.
When maintaining a starter's existing weight, it is advised to discard 60% (or more) of the starter, replacing that discarded dough with new dough. If an increased amount of starter is required, simply add new dough. 40-parts-to-60-parts of old-dough-to-new-dough by weight, or 2-to-3, is known as the back-slopping ratio, and changes to that ...
Freshly consumed rye bread is thick, while bread stored for an extended period becomes thin. Traditional rye bread shapes vary, with large, round, and thick bread being the most common. In Karelia and Savo, this type of soft rye bread, often referred to simply as leipä (bread) or musta leipä (black bread), was a weekly staple. Other regional ...
The large Finnish minority group in Sweden eats a stiffer rye bread baked with sour dough. Bread was historically primarily served in one of two ways, either broken into pieces in a soup, stock, milk, or fermented milk, or dipped in a hot drink, or served in the form of butter spread on a slice of bread and served as an open sandwich. [15]
Karelian pasties made in Vaivio, Liperi Karelian pasties, Karelian pies or Karelian pirogs (Karelian: kalitat, singular kalitta; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku; Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka [ˈkɑrjɑlɑnˌpiːrɑkːɑ]; [1] or Swedish: karelska piroger) are traditional Finnish pasties or pirogs originating from the region of Karelia.
Today, the dough, which must contain a large amount of water, is cooled and mixed until bubbly. Another method is to knead the dough under pressure in an extruder. The sudden drop in pressure then causes water to evaporate, creating bubbles in the dough. Crispbread is only baked for a few minutes, at temperatures usually between 200 and 250 °C.