What can I substitute for rye flour?
I am trying to make marbled rye bread, but around here I can't find rye flour. All I can find is all-purpose flour, bread flour, and maybe cake flour. Is there some way I can substitute stuff to replicate rye flour without actually having any?
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Do you want rye bread, or do you want "the taste you may associate with rye bread?" (caraway seeds)
If you want bread that tastes like seeded rye, caraway seeds will get you 99.5% of the way there - they are rather overpowering and appear to be what most people "mean" when they say "rye bread" in my experience. They can be put in wheat bread without most people being any the wiser as to the actual grain in the flour.
If you want it marbled, mix some molasses or carob in part of the dough.
If you are not in some terribly inaccessible/inconvenient location, ordering in rye flour should be possible, though you might make sure you have checked all the markets in the area, as what a "supermarket" might not have, a "health food store" or cooperative market might. In some cases, the "baking aisle" won't have what you want, but some other aisle in the same store will (natural foods or some such.)
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Can you substitute regular flour for rye flour?
To substitute by volume, start with this: 1 cup all-purpose flour is approximately equivalent to 1 cup + 2 tablespoons medium rye flour. For selected recipes, I added one more test: 125% rye (i.e., I used 25% more rye flour than the amount of all-purpose flour called for).Is rye flour the same as whole wheat flour?
Rye contains gluten, but not as much as wheat does. It also has more soluble sugars than wheat flour, so it ferments faster. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it can ferment too fast and collapse.Can whole wheat flour be substituted for rye flour?
The bottom line: If you don't mind the distinctive flavor of rye, swapping half of the whole-wheat flour in a bread recipe with rye flour will make it shelf-stable for up to a week.Rye Flour Roti | Super Weight Loss Roti - Lose 5 Kgs in a Month - Sumana's Kitchen
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I, also, am unable to get rye flour where I live. I did, however, find some decent dark rye crackers in the super market. I ground a couple of these very finely and added it to regular flour. The result was pretty satisfactory. I did have to adjust the yeast as it doesn't rise anywhere near as well. As mentioned above caraway seeds will take you very far when trying to imitate rye bread. This worked great for the Reubens I was making.
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