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Hier geht's zur deutschen Version dieses Posts Just in time for Zorra's 2016 World Bread Day event, I received my copy of Stanley Ginsberg 's The Rye Baker in the mail. I met Stanley several years ago at the The Fresh Loaf forum, when he looked for test bakers for his first book, "Inside the Jewish Bakery" . Though, at that stage, some recipes still were a bit rough around the edges (my husband complained about feeling like a guinea pig!), the book was well worth it, and his Onion Rolls are still a great favorite with my customers. Last year, I was happy to help with the translation of some German recipes Stanley considered for his newest book, devoted entirely to rye breads. Leafing through the The Rye Baker, a cluster of spiral shaped savory rolls caught my eye. Not only because the "Swabian Rye Flower" looked so attractive - it was made with a laminated rye dough ! I had never even heard that such a thing existed. The filling was easy: Trader ...

Hier geht's zur deutschen Version dieses Posts When I - driven from a real "Breaking Bad Bread" experience - challenged my baking buddies from The Fresh Loaf , Facebook and several congenial blogs to create a " Bread for the Knight with the Iron Hand ", I promised myself to try all 30 loaves over time. One of those congenial blogs is Britta's Brot vom Niederrhein - Bread from the Lower Rhine. Britta, 35-year old process engineer and mother of two, named her blog after the lower Rhine region of North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany, where she lives and works. Britta: "Others knit to relax, I bake!" "It is pretty here, prettier than many believe. Industrial culture has its charm, the view from a heap to the blast furnaces, chimneys, and the Rhine with its many green meadows and sheep is really pretty." The Lower Rhine with its industrial culture has its own charm - coal mine Zollern in Dortmund Idyllic contrast to heaps and chimneys: sheep grazi...