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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 ...
Bread hanging from a pole in the ceiling. 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 ...
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. Traditional Finnish rye breads, such as reikäleipä and limppu, were historically dried on poles ...
Nordic food culture in the south and east of the region comprises a tradition of baking softer rye breads. In Denmark and especially in Sweden, the soft rye bread is sweeter; in Finland, a drier sour rye bread type is traditional. Iceland has for the past hundred years imported grain to make bread, as grain is not cultivated on the island.
Finland is widely renowned for its rich bread culture, exemplified by its diverse range of breads, from sour rye to kalakukko – a "fish rooster" encased in a hearty rye crust. These "roosters" come in many varieties, originally developed as a way to preserve food.
Rye bread is a type of bread made with various proportions of flour from rye grain. It can be light or dark in color, depending on the type of flour used and the addition of coloring agents, and is typically denser than bread made from wheat flour.
Traditionally, it was also eaten on sliced bread as a spread. [citation needed] There is a Finnish society for mämmi [3] founded by Ahmed Ladarsi, the former chef at the Italian Embassy in Helsinki, who has developed around fifty recipes containing mämmi. [4] There are a number of websites with recipes using mämmi, most of them Finnish. [5]
Kyrö Distillery Company is a Finnish rye distillery founded in a sauna in 2012. [2] Kyrö uses 100 per cent Finnish rye to produce rye gin and rye whisky. [3] In 2015, Kyrö Napue Gin, formerly known as Napue, won the Best Gin for Gin & Tonic category in the International Wine and Spirit competition. [4]