Baking pumpernickel had been on my projects list for years. I always hesitated because the internet was full of various recipes using many different methods, so it was hard to tell what is real and what isn’t. You know that I don’t care too much for sticking to tradition, but I wanted to make this one right.

Recently I read Stanley Ginsberg’s ‘The Rye Baker’, a book that every rye bread enthusiast should definitely consider reading. It’s not only full of valuable information regarding the principles of rye bread baking, but it also contains lots of rye bread recipes from all over the world. You can find it in my Amazon store.

Almost at the very end of the book is a recipe for Westphalian pumpernickel. The short description mentions that real pumpernickel must not contain anything else but rye, salt, and water. That immediately piqued my interest. I had never made an unleavened loaf of bread. And the fact that the ever-elusive pumpernickel had turned out to be as basic as this was quite surprising to me.

Another surprise was the rye required for the recipe. It is not rye flour, rather it is rye meal or cracked rye. Flour is milled fine while cracked rye is essentially just coarsely broken up rye grain.

On my first attempt I tried using wholegrain rye flour instead – it did not work at all. Get yourself a bag of cracked rye and all will be good. You’ll end up with an incredibly flavourful and extremely dense bread that will last weeks if you don’t devour it too quickly.

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