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Pumpernickel Bread | Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen | This delicious home-baked #bread is so easy since it's made in the #breadmaker. #Pumpernickel is a #SourdoughBread made with #RyeFlour. It's excellent as a dinner bread with any entree. We like to serve it for #breakfast with Apple Butter or jelly. #HomeMadeBread #HomeBakedBread #PumpernickelBread

Pumpernickel Bread

Teresa Ambra
Pumpernickel Bread is marvelous. This bread is not only excellent for dinner, but it's terrific served for breakfast with Apple Butter or other preserves. Pumpernickel is a tasty home-baked Sourdough Bread using rye flour and caraway seeds. It's so easy because it's made in the breadmaker! This two-pound loaf takes about 5 minutes to prepare and bakes on the wheat cycle for approximately 4 hours. Mouthwatering and so delicious.
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 8 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 8 minutes
Course Breads, Rolls and Muffins, Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 16
Calories 171 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 breadmaker
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 pastry brush to brush bread with melted butter after baking
  • 1 electric knife preferred, or sharp bread knife

Ingredients
  

  • 1 2/3 cup hot water
  • 3 tbsp. powdered milk
  • 2 tbsp. Crisco shortening or avocado oil
  • 2 tbsp. honey
  • 2 tbsp. molasses
  • 1 3/4 tsp. Kosher salt or sea salt
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 2 2/3 cups bread flour NOT all-purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup rye flour
  • 2 tbsp. cocoa
  • 2 tsp. instant coffee granules
  • 2 tsp. caraway seeds
  • 1 3/4 tsp. active dry bread machine yeast (Fleischmann's preferred over Red Star)
  • 4 tsp. vital wheat gluten

Instructions
 

  • Layer ingredients in bread canister in order given.
  • Set for wheat bread setting.
  • Allow to cool about 15 minutes before removing from canister.
  • Butter top and sides of bread with pastry brush to prevent crust from hardening.
  • Allow bread to cool an additional 15 minutes before cutting.
  • Slice down.
  • About 16 slices.

Notes

NOTE: Homemade bread has no preservatives so it needs to be refrigerated after 2 days.
 
NOTE: all-purpose flour does not contain the necessary gluten to bond the ingredients together as well as bread flour. The bread may turn out crumbly. For best results use bread flour.
 
NOTE: I recommend using Fleischmann's yeast or bread machine yeast in any yeast bread recipe. Red Star yeast just doesn't work as well.
 
Recipe adapted from Black and Decker.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 171kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 6gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 3mgSodium: 223mgPotassium: 174mgFiber: 3gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 29IUVitamin C: 0.4mgCalcium: 49mgIron: 1mg
Keyword bread, breakfast, brunch
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