More Picture Of What Is German Sourdough Bread Best Resolution Image. Rye bread in Germany and Austria is made with sourdough as well as some mixed-flour breads Mischbrote. German bread is heavy and has substance.
And like many German breads it uses a sourdough starter to give the bread rise and develop a beautiful lightly sour flavor. Sourdough is an old form of bread leavening. It is a mix of wheat and rye flour and has a rather malty taste compared to a white bread.
So Germans to this day tend to eat sourdough bread made with rye spelt and wheat flours and packed with grains and seeds.
Some call it Mischbrot mixed bread some call it Graubrot grey bread and others call it Roggenbrot rye bread. And like many German breads it uses a sourdough starter to give the bread rise and develop a beautiful lightly sour flavor. It is a mix of wheat and rye flour and has a rather malty taste compared to a white bread. A type of sourdough bread popular in Germany made with bread flour or whole-wheat flour and rye flour which is one of the most widely cultivated and used grains in the country.