19/06/2022
SOLD. Ruisreikäleipä (rye hole-bread) also known as reikäleipä is a kind of Finnish bread, a flat rye flour loaf with a hole in the middle.
The baking of ruisreikäleipä is a tradition in western Finland. In eastern Finland thick rye bread, usually called ruislimppu (rye loaf), is more common, but traditionally only bread baked from rye has been called bread in the Karelia and Savo (eastern) regions.
The hole had a functional purpose: the bread was baked in flat rings to be placed on poles suspended just below the kitchen ceiling to mature and dry in the relative warmth. Usually many loaves were baked at once. The poles also remained the place of storage so that the bread aged, in its many forms, over the long winter. Nowadays this kind of bread is available in all its forms and stages of aging throughout the whole of Finland, regardless of season, and is one main component of the Finnish diet.
Ingredients: rye organic flour, white organic flour, rye sourdough starter, dry rye molasses, dark syrup, salt, water.
£3 for 1,
I have 2 breads available today
