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INGREDIENTS
2 cups Buttermilk
1 tbsp Salt
â…“ cups Molasses
¼ oz Yeast (dry)
1 cups Rye Flower
1 cups Spelt Flour
2 cups Whole Wehat Flour
¾ cups Walnuts
¾ cups Figs dried
some Butter or Oil for the jars
INSTRUCTIONS
Mix the buttermilk, salt and molasses in a saucepan and warm it up slightly, like babybath temperature.
In a bow, mix the flours.
Sprinkle the yeast onto the buttermilk and let sit for a couple of minutes.
Add the buttermilk mixture to the flour and mix for 10 minutes to create a dough.
In the meantime, chop the nuts if they are too large but don't chop them too small. Also, cut the figs (removing any stems) into smaller pieces.
At the end of the mixing time, add the walnuts and figs and mix them in.
If you bake this bread in jars:
Grease the jars, then add a little flour and let it cover the inside of the jars.
Fill the jars with dough to about half.
If you bake in a loaf pan, just fill it in.
Cover and let ferment for about 1 hour.
If you bake in jars: Make sure the rim of each jar is clean.
Preheat the oven to 180°C or 350°F.
Bake the bread until the center of the bread has reached a temperature of 200°F / 95°C!
With my jars, it took about 1 hour.
With a loaf pan it will take about 1 hour 45 minutes.
If you are baking in a loaf pan, let the bread cool, then it's ready.
If you are baking in jars, continue:
Open the oven door a bit to let the steam get out but leave the jars in the oven.
Test: Put a lid on one jar, wait a moment and check if water collects on the inside of the lid. If yes, wait longer. If no, continue …
Screw the lids on the jars, make sure the rims of the jars are clean and the lid sits tight. Careful, the jars are very hot!
Use a large cook pot (or several), Place a towel on the bottom and fill about 2 inches / 3 cm with water.
Put the jars into the pot and bring it to a boil. Let simmer for 30 minutes (for larger jars, simmer longer!).
After the cooking time, leave the jars in the pot while cooling. You are done.
If you want to be extra careful, repeat the cooking step after 24 to 48 hours.
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