Start Rye Bread Dough

Start Rye Bread Dough
My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make rye bread. Alright, so it's been ten minutes so we're going to give it a little stir. Alright, I'm going to put our mixer on our lowest setting and the first thing I'm going to add in is that brown sugar, careful not to splash. Then I'm going to add in my butter. I only use a spatula for the butter because it will probably stick to the outside edge of the dish. It's a good thing I have my towel handy because I just spilled butter on the counter. And, we are going to stir this up for a second till it gets pretty even looking. Alright, now what we are going to do is we are going to shut the power off, we're going to lower this and I'm going to add that rye flour. Don't dump it in all at once, don't flip it over, you'll get a huge mess. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to raise it back up. I'm going to put a towel over the mixer for a second so it doesn't send a big cloud of dust into my face, turn it on, and there we go and you'll see that it will start to pick up some of the moisture on the flour and turn into this brown kind of gloppy looking mess. I'm going to crank it up a little bit. Now this is the point at which I want to change the attachment on the mixer. So, I'm going to lower that. I'm going to take the whip off because that's not the part I want to use anymore and I'm going to go ahead and attach that dough hook. Even though I don't really have dough right now, I've got more of a sluggy paste. It'll make a definite difference. So, I'm going to let this go for a few minutes and I'll come back in one second and we'll finish it off for the next step.