{"id":1996,"date":"2011-05-06T17:26:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T17:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2017-11-14T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:46:58","slug":"german-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"German Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I am German, there is one thing in the world I love ever so, and that is bread. I cannot imagine a life without bread because you can easily prepare a belegtes Brot<\/em><\/strong> (sandwich) for every meal of the day. You can have bread for breakfast and dinner, as well as a breaktime snack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most common kind of bread is Mischbrot<\/em><\/strong> (brown bread), which is made of\u00a0 wheat and rye flour. I love to eat it especially when it is still warm. On every occasion I can get a freshly baked loaf of bread at a bakery, I always hurry to get home to cut off the Brotkanten<\/em><\/strong> (crust), butter it, salt it, and eat it.<\/p>\n

The best known German bread is probably Pumpernickel<\/a><\/em><\/strong> , which is a very heavy black bread and it tastes slightly sweet.\u00a0It is a combination rye flour and rye berries and it takes up to 20 hours to bake it. Therefore, you cannot buy it in ordinary bakeries. Usually, pumpernickel bread is prepackaged and available in supermarkets<\/a>. Although this bread is sliced thinly I can hardly eat more than two slices of Pumpernickel. It is a very substanial kind of bread.<\/p>\n

Of course, there is also Wei\u00dfbrot<\/em><\/strong> (white bread) in Germany but it is not really favored. Germans rather prefer to eat white flour pastries as Br\u00f6tchen<\/em><\/strong> (rolls) or Toastbrot<\/em><\/strong> (toast) oder t\u00fcrkisches Fladenbrot<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Turkish flatbread).<\/p>\n

In general, German bread is more solid and moist than the bread I have eaten abroad. For example, English bread was quite too soft and bone-dry to me. It was impossible for me to spread some butter on it without making holes in my slices of bread.<\/p>\n

In Germany, you can get the best bread in B\u00e4ckereien<\/em><\/strong> (bakeries), which you can find at ever turn. Bakeries do also offer rolls, cakes, and pies. To the disadvantage of the buying public, fresh bread is always more expensive than the abgepackte Brot<\/em><\/strong> (packaged bread) that you can get in supermarkets. But I find that prepacked bread is not as tasty as frisch gebackenes Brot<\/em><\/strong> (freshly baked bread).<\/p>\n

Since Germans love freshly baked bread, most supermarkets have now areas where they offer, beside prepacked bread, freshly baked bread, too. In some supermarkets the oven is even next to the shelves, so that the staff can crisp up the preformed raw dough, whenever it is needed.<\/p>\n

Maybe you want to bake some German bread at home, so here is a website where you can find a lot of different recipes<\/a>. Good luck!<\/p>\n

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das belegte Brot \u2013 sandwich<\/p>\n

das Mischbrot \u2013 brown bread (made with wheat and rye flour)<\/p>\n

die Brotkante \u2013 crust<\/p>\n

das Wei\u00dfbrot \u2013 white bread<\/p>\n

das Br\u00f6tchen \u2013 roll<\/p>\n

das Toastbrot \u2013 toast<\/p>\n

das Fladenbrot \u2013 flatbread<\/p>\n

die B\u00e4ckerei \u2013 bakery<\/p>\n

das abgepackte Brot \u2013 packaged bread<\/p>\n

das frisch gebackene Brot \u2013 freshly baked bread<\/p>\n

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das Schwarzbrot \u2013 black bread<\/p>\n

das Vollkornbrot \u2013 wholemeal bread<\/p>\n

das Roggenbrot \u2013 rye bread<\/p>\n

das Dinkelbrot \u2013 spelt bread<\/p>\n

das K\u00fcrbiskernbrot \u2013 pumpkin seed bread<\/p>\n

das Sonnenblumenkernbrot \u2013 sunflower seed bread<\/p>\n

das Kartoffelbrot \u2013 potato bread<\/p>\n

das Baguettebr\u00f6tchen \u2013 French roll<\/p>\n

das Mohnbr\u00f6tchen \u2013 poppyseed role<\/p>\n

das Sesambr\u00f6tchen \u2013 sesam bun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Since I am German, there is one thing in the world I love ever so, and that is bread. I cannot imagine a life without bread because you can easily prepare a belegtes Brot (sandwich) for every meal of the day. You can have bread for breakfast and dinner, as well as a breaktime snack…<\/p>\n

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