tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234880020116347326.post8270416276759972653..comments2023-10-17T05:48:51.621-07:00Comments on Finnish Food Revisited: Some Historical Research...Karen & Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16171739511017565827noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3234880020116347326.post-88232540235219737562009-10-03T09:06:31.764-07:002009-10-03T09:06:31.764-07:00Dear Karen and Greg
You asked about finnish ryeb...Dear Karen and Greg<br />You asked about finnish ryebread "reikä leipä (reikä means hole and leipä is bread = a bread whit a hole) That true it is a round flat bread with a hole in the middle. The hole was for drying, older days, as you write, they baked in farm houses twice a year and the bread was hung on kitchen roof by put a pole trough the hole and then hung the poles whit between 50 and 100 bread each up on roof.<br />Finnish rye is sour and its soured by as u wrote by starter, sourdough. It was baked in some short "half barrel" which was never washed. Bakers drayed they dried it and next time they baked there was a sourdough-stater on the walls of barrel. <br />Every Finnish old-fashion farmer women got they very own sourdough, which they guarded and was ( and is) very proud of it goes heritage from mother-in-law to daughter-in-law. I can imagine that some of Finnish Women immigrants got their baking barrel with sourdough in it whith them when their immigrated.<br />I gues you can buy that kind of bread i US some special shops, its marketed whit name FINN-CRISP. finn crisp dont look an old fashion reikäleipä but taste is quit same. Actually FinnCrisp is made in Vaasa.<br /><br />You can still buy that kind of sour ryebread every finish supermarket. fresh and dyed.<br /><br />U can read more about finnish rye bread in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breads_of_Finland#Rye_bread<br /><br />TapaniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com