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What is rye bread?
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#73862. Asked by armindasantana. (Dec 28 06 4:25 PM)
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sjhodges825
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Rye bread is bread made with rye flour. It can be light or dark in color, and is typically denser than bread made from wheat flour. It is higher in fibre than other types of common bread and is darker in color and stronger in flavor.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye_bread
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Baloo55th
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Can also be called black bread, and includes pumpernickel and similar stuff. The colour depends on whether wheat flour is added, and if so how much. Rye grows in colder climates than wheat likes, so it's found more in northern places. Nowadays tends to be found in more expensive shops and health food places (OK, you can get it at Lidl as well), while once it was a peasant food. The lord of the manor or local equivalent ate white bread, while the peasants ate the rye. Funny how things like that turn around.
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satguru
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Anyone want to hazard a guess as to the meaning of pumpernickel? Nickel is Nicholas and pump is what it says. Honestly!
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skysmom65
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Here ya go Satguru!
Debate flourishes about the origin of the word. Philologist Johann Christoph Adelung states about the Germanic origin of the word, in the vernacular, Pumpen was a New High German synonym for being flatulent, a word similar in meaning to the English "fart", and "Nickel" was a form of the name Nicholas, an appellation commonly associated with a goblin or devil (e.g., "Old Nick", a familiar name for Satan). Hence, pumpernickel is described as the "devil's fart", a definition accepted by the Stopes International Language Database [1], the publisher Random House [2], and by some English language dictionaries, including Webster's Dictionary [3]. The American Heritage Dictionary adds "so named from being hard to digest."
http://www.answers.com/topic/pumpernickel-bread
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