sauerkraut Question

Skunks · 05-22-2006, 06:22 AM

Rye is a grain. Historically it grew as a weed crop, intermingled with (predominately?) eastern European wheat, and the cheap (peasant) solution was to harvest both & just ignore its presence. Somewhere along the way the poor man's food became a preferred taste, and you now have people making rye flour with which one can make varying degrees of rye/wheat/other grain breads, all the way up through pumpernickle, which is essentially pure rye.

(Please do not hold me accountable for factual errors. I did no research. I also did not really read any previous posts more than enough to think 'rye! I can write a barely solicited, vaguely informative paragraph about that!')

05-22-2006, 06:22 AM	#1
Skunks I thought I changed this. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: western nowhere, ny Posts: 412	Rye is a grain. Historically it grew as a weed crop, intermingled with (predominately?) eastern European wheat, and the cheap (peasant) solution was to harvest both & just ignore its presence. Somewhere along the way the poor man's food became a preferred taste, and you now have people making rye flour with which one can make varying degrees of rye/wheat/other grain breads, all the way up through pumpernickle, which is essentially pure rye. (Please do not hold me accountable for factual errors. I did no research. I also did not really read any previous posts more than enough to think 'rye! I can write a barely solicited, vaguely informative paragraph about that!')

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