Bread – Jane’s Bread Machine Limpa

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JaneToombs

(JaneToombs.com)

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The Story behind the recipe - Elmer said he’d sure enjoy some limpa. He couldn’t imagine I’d never heard of this Finnish bread. I told him neither of the two guys I’d married (divorced one, the second died) before he showed up again in my life were Finns. He’s Swede, but his deceased wife had been a Finn and had actually made the bread. I found a loaf of limpa in a small town near ours and fell immediately in love with the taste. But then they quit making it. Nobody seems to make limpa anymore. What to do? There are a lot of limpa recipes you can unearth, but I wanted a bread machine one because arthritis has made it impossible for either Elmer or me to knead. We did have a bread maker, so I took a bunch of limpa recipes that sounded good and tried to figure out a plausible bread machine limpa recipe. I had so many failures (which we ate anyway, because the taste was there) that I almost gave up in despair. But I’m not a quitter and the last recipe finally worked.

What you'll need

- 3/4 cup water, ½ cup buttermilk

- 1/3 cup molasses, 1 tablespoon melted butter

- 1 ½ cups white bread flour, 1 cup medium rye flour

- ½ cup dark (stone-ground) rye flour, 1 tablespoon wheat gluten

- 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar, 1 teaspoon salt

- ½ teaspoon anise (Note: Fennel may be used instead)

Steps in the process

- Place water, buttermilk, molasses, melted butter in bread maker mixing insert.

- Add remaining ingredients but do not mix! Make a small depression in the dry ingredients and place 1 tablespoon of yeast in this depression. Do not mix!

- Place mixing insert into bread machine. Close. Program for whole wheat (3 hours and 30 minutes)

- Program crust for light. Turn on. Bread will be done with approximately 10 minutes left on cycle

-.Remove and cool or it will get too well done. This recipe makes a really big loaf.

Comments – Here’s an alternative process to make two loaves. Remove the ball of dough before it goes into the baking cycle. Allow dough to rise, then punch down and divide into two balls. Put one each in two already greased round baking pans. After they’ve risen again, bake in 375 degree oven until done (about an hour). Remove and cool.

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