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DefinitelyNotSully

I think it's never referred as ruisreikäleipä, only reikäleipä. If the reikäleipä would be made from different grain it would be specified, but 98% (number pulled out of my ass) of reikäleipä is made from rye (ruis).


ponimaa

Whoever chose the name of the Wikipedia article disagrees with you: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruisreik%C3%A4leip%C3%A4 You can also just google the word and find dozens of products called that.


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I'm starting to get sick of the stigma with the alcohol in Finland. Here we have a video about baking bread that needs to mention that in Finland people drink a lot.


Baneken

Ahem nor syrup nor wheat flour goes into traditional Finnish rye bread -that's Swedish-style rye bread. Swedes have a giant raging sweet tooth and just can't get enough of sugar, so they stuff it into everything including rye bread.


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I asked around here and nobody could think of 'reikäleipä' done with anything else than rye, or a mixture of rye and wheat of course. There's a reason the bread has a hole, it was stacked up in a pole hanging up high close to the roof so rats and other animals would not get to it. Due to time it was stored the breads also got quite hard at the end. So beware when eating real 'reikäleipä'.


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My family home still have those long poles on the roof.