is rye bread easy to make?

[Yorkiegirl]

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Here's a nice White with Rye recipe for the breadmaker from the Fresh Bread in the Morning book by Annette Yates (can thoroughly recommend this book):

1 tsp easybake yeast
385g extra strong or canadian white bread flour
115g rye flour
1½ tsp fine sea salt
350ml water

use BASIC WHITE RAPID, DARK CRUST and appropriate SIZE

(Notes on the recipe: The addition of rye flour makes a slightly more dense loaf with a lovely soft crumb. To ensure success, don't be tempted to increase the amount of rye flour and always use a rapid program.)

not too clear on how breadmakers work, i use a mixer and usually make sourdough, but does this look the sort of thing you want to make? they are a brilliant resource anyway, and have loads of breadmaker recipes to be baked in or out of the machine.

i have forgotten what flour improver is, too difficult to get here. i just leave it out when it appears in recipes.

For a first go at rye bread, I would start with any 'normal' bread recipe and use 1/2 rye flour and and half white. Just do the recipe as usual.

Then experiment upping the proportion of rye flour and mixing it with other flours - my children like a mix of 1/3 rye and 2/3 wholemeal.

And then try a rye sourdough - lovely!

I do mine by hand because I don't think breadmakers are as good, but I don't see any reason why you shouldn't do a rye bread in a breadmaker if that's what you normally use.