Rúgbrauð: Icelandic thunder bread
Delicious Rúgbrauð: Icelandic thunder bread made multigrain flours include rye. Sweetened with molasses and moistened by buttermilk.
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time1 hour hr 30 minutes mins
Fermentation time1 hour hr
Total Time2 hours hrs 50 minutes mins
Course: Breakfast, Brunch
Cuisine: Icelandic
Keyword: Bread Recipes, Icelandic Thunder bread, Rugbrauo
Servings: 9 servings
Calories: 251kcal
- 1.6 cup 167g rye flour
- 1 cup 150g White whole wheat flour
- 1 cup 160g Bread flour
- 11/2 teaspoon 6g Instant yeast if you are using active dry yeast, you must proof the yeast with 1 teaspoon sugar and ¼ cup luke warm water
- 1 teaspoon 6g salt
- 1 teaspoon 6gbaking soda
- ⅓ cup molasses
- 2 cup 460g buttermilk
In a bowl of kitchen aid stand mixer, add flours, salt, baking soda, yeast. Blend together molasses and buttermilk and add to flour yeast mixture with gradual mixing.
Mixture will be fairly thin, more like a cake batter than bread dough.
Transfer the batter into a lightly greased pan ( I used 9x13 inch loaf tin) and smooth the top. Set aside for 60 minutes covered with plastic wrap and a damp towel. You may or may not see any yeast activity at this time.
By the end of 60 minutes, preheat oven to 360F. In the lower rack of your oven place a roasting pan filled with hot water for about half while the oven is preheating. This will create a hot steamy oven.
Bake, uncovered, for about an hour and half or it register an internal temperature of 200F or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Run a knife around the edges to loosen, let sit for just a couple minutes, and then turn over onto a cooling rack.
Once it is cooled completely cut the pieces and brush with warm butter and enjoy.
This recipe is adapted from this blog Iceland bound which in turn an adapted from Almar Grímsson’s recipe and also from Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir’s Icelandic Food and Cookery
If you are using active dry yeast make sure to proof the yeast before making to the dough.
You can also bake this bread in crock pot, I haven’t done this
Make sure to fill the roasting pan with half full of water so that steam will retain through the entire baking. If you find water is low add more hot water.
Calories: 251kcal | Carbohydrates: 48g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 445mg | Potassium: 421mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 88IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 105mg | Iron: 2mg