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Panasonic Bread Maker Rye Bread Recipes (From the Old Manual) recipe

Name: Panasonic Bread Maker Rye Bread Recipes (From the Old Manual)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 40 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 250 g rye flour; 250 g strong white bread flour; 2 tbsp oil (I use olive oil); 2 tsp sugar; 2 tsp salt (I use kosher); 170ml stout (can use 340 ml stout if alcohol free - see notes); 170ml water; 1½ tsp dried yeast (I use Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast); 250 g rye flour; 250 g strong wholemeal bread flour; 2 tbsp oil (I use olive oil); 2 tsp sugar; 2 tsp salt (I use kosher); 360ml water; 1½ tsp dried yeast (I use Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast)

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A rye and wholemeal loaf, and a rye and stout loaf, made in a Panasonic bread maker.

Prep10m
Cook3h 30m
Total3h 40m

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Panasonic bread maker rye and wholemeal bread plus rye and stout

Panasonic bread maker rye and wholemeal bread plus rye and stout and rye and seeded

Panasonic ditched a bunch of rye recipes in their latest bread maker manual. My old manual lists:

100% rye
Rye and white
Rye and wholemeal
Rye and stout
Seeded rye

The new manual for my YR2540 only contains the first two. I love flipping through my old bread maker manual. It’s got over 60 recipes for loaves and 27 for dough. The new one has around half the amount; it’s nowhere near as fun to browse.

Rye and stout

The recipe specifies 100% rye flour but I prefer this as a 50% rye, 50% white loaf. The taste of stout is subtle, possibly because I use low alcohol Drop Bear. A 100% rye loaf made with Guinness 0.0 didn’t taste overtly stout-y either.

Rye and wholemeal

This loaf turns out flat, just like 100% rye. I was hoping it would dome like rye and white, but with all the fibre and reduced gluten, it’s too big an ask.

Personally, I prefer the flavour of rye without wholemeal but this is a perfectly serviceable loaf, especially with soft, creamy toppings like scrambled eggs and salmon.

The other forgotten loaf: seeded rye

See the second picture (oh dear). It could absolutely be my error, but it’s basically the 100% rye loaf, with an additional 8 tablespoons of seeds and 10 ml less water. My 100% rye loaves turn out fine now that I’ve tweaked the water and yeast. This seeded loaf though. I have no idea how to save it. Rye often rises then collapses a little. This one didn’t rise at all.

The new manual contains a white seeded loaf with 5 tablespoons of seeds. The bigger seeds (pumpkin, sunflower and linseed) go into the raisin and nut dispenser. This means that the ingredients get a good mix before 60% of the seeds are added. I bet that helps the rise out. Panasonic's rye programme doesn't open the raisin and nut dispenser and I don't fancy adding the seeds myself. I ended up throwing the seeded loaf out but I'm not complaining. It's the first fail I've had in years, since that one time I forgot to add the yeast.

Notes

If using alcoholic stout, make sure to use 50% stout, 50% water, as alcohol can inhibit the yeast.

I use Marriage's dark rye flour.

Original quantities from the Panasonic manual:

Rye and stout: 360 ml water, 2 tsp yeast

50/50 rye and wholemeal: 380 ml water, 2 tsp yeast

Recipe

Panasonic Bread Maker Rye Bread Recipes (From the Old Manual)

Prep10m
Cook3h 30m
Total3h 40m

Serves: 1 loaf

Ingredients

Rye and stout

250 g rye flour
250 g strong white bread flour
2 tbsp oil (I use olive oil)
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp salt (I use kosher)
170ml stout (can use 340 ml stout if alcohol free - see notes)
170ml water
1½ tsp dried yeast (I use Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast)

Rye and wholemeal

250 g rye flour
250 g strong wholemeal bread flour
2 tbsp oil (I use olive oil)
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp salt (I use kosher)
360ml water
1½ tsp dried yeast (I use Allinson's Easy Bake Yeast)

Method

Rye and stout loaf

Put the rye blade into the bread tin. Add 250 g of rye flour (I use dark rye), 250 g of strong white bread flour, 2 tablespoons of oil (I use olive), 2 teaspoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons of salt and 170 ml of stout and 170 ml of water (or 340 ml alcohol-free stout, see notes) into the loaf tin then put it into the bread maker.
Add 1½ teaspoons of yeast to the yeast dispenser and select the rye setting. The programme takes 3 hours 30 minutes. When the timer sounds, shake the loaf onto a rack and allow to cool before slicing.

Rye and wholemeal loaf

Put the rye blade into the bread tin. Add 250 g of rye flour (I use dark rye), 250 g strong wholemeal bread flour, 2 tablespoons of oil (I use olive), 2 teaspoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons of salt and 360ml of water into the loaf tin then put it into the bread maker.
Add 1½ teaspoons of yeast to the yeast dispenser and select the rye setting. The programme takes 3 hours 30 minutes. When the timer sounds, shake the loaf onto a rack and allow to cool before slicing.

Panasonic rye settings

SD-YR2550: menu 12

SD-YR2540: menu 12

SD-ZB2512: menu 8

You can delay when the bread maker will finish by up to 13 hours. If the loaf refuses to come out of the pan, leave it for 5-10 minutes then try again.