Slices of pumpernickel dark rye bread with strawberry and orange jam, cup of tea on the side, photographed overhead with natural light (Selective Focus, Focus on the upper slice) Credit ...

I’m glad that I persisted here, where more reasonable people would long since have given up, as I have finally created the dark, treacly bread I had hitherto only imagined and obsessed over.

There is no need to stretch and fold the dough, because rye flour lacks gluten to ... “Formulas.” This dark, moist, treacly bread has a distinctively Russian character, and is best left ...