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Whole Rye Bread

Makes 2 - 8 by 4" loaves

2 cups Rye sourdough starter
3 cups Spring Water (70-75F)
6 cups Rye flour preferably medium ground
1 tablespoon Fine sea salt

THE DOUGH
Measure ingredients. Combine starter and water in 6 qt bowl. Break up the starter with a wooden spoon and stir until it loosens and the mixture is slightly frothy. Gradually add (2 cups) of the flour, stir until well combined. Add salt and remaining flour and stir until batter is thick and pasty. This is very wet dough, like thick batter.

FERMENT DOUGH
Take the dough's temperature: it should be 78F. Cover with a clean damp towel or plastic wrap and put in a moderately warm (74-80F) draft free place. The dough batter will only increase in volume about one-third and will feel wet and spongy when pressed lightly with your finger. (5-6 HRS)

DIVIDE DOUGH INTO LOAF PANS
Generously grease two 8 x 4 x 2 1/2" bread pans with vegetable shortening and dust with rye flour. Turn the dough into the pan and level the top using a wet metal thin blade spatula.

PROOF LOAVES
Cover with clean damp towel or plastic wrap and place in a warm moderately (74-80F) draft-free place to rise again. The batter will not double in volume, but increase by only about one-quarter. (2 - 3 hrs)

BAKE LOAVES
Preheat the oven and homemade hearth or baking stone in the enter rack of the oven to 300F. Bake until the loaves have shrunk from the sides of the pan, the tops are dark brown, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 2 1/2 - 3 hrs. Remove loaves from pans and hold them upside down. Tap bottoms firmly with your finger. If it sound's hollow,cool loaves on a wire rack. If it doesn't sound hollow, bake 15 minutes longer. Cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the pans to cool completely on wire racks. Let bread rest for 12 hours before using.

The dough contains no wheat flour, therefore, it has no gluten to form free-standing loaves. It is more a batter than a dough and must be baked in pans. The resulting bread is moist and very dense.