Rye Bread : Wheat Free UK Recipe

[spookygrrrly]

I finally find a Rye bread recipe that contains no wheat yet is really simple. Great huh?
Yep...except for one thing. It's a UK recipe so everything is in grams and liters. Trying to convert this recipe is giving me a headache. Though if anyone wants to try and help...here are the measurements:

1 kg rye flour
20g fresh yeast
800 ml tepid water
20g sea salt

The rest of the recipe is here if you would like it.

Comments

[alasharia-la.livejournal.com]

Its not a UK recipe. The UK still uses Imperial measurements. Its more likely an NZ, AU or mainland European recipe. (we're all "civilised", and use metric, where everything is either 1/10th or 1/100th of the next largest measure. Its a much easier system to use and learn, and appeals to my sense of "lazy")
Oh, and 1 kg = 2.2 lbs, 20 g = approx 7 oz and 800 ml = 27 fl oz.

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

er... no. the UK does use metric for recipes, at least every recipe written within the last 10 years.

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

that being said, here's what the UK doesn't use metric for: miles on the road, inches of a person's height, and a person's weight, which is measured in stone. (although doctors seem keen to get everyone into metric for those last two. :) )

[alasharia-la.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it make it difficult for everyone who has grown up using Imperial measurements to suddenly have to learn a new set for cooking?
And especially since I'm presuming that tinned vegies, etc are still measured in ounces?
You know, the height thing isn't a huge surprise. Even though we use metric here in AU, I still know my height in feet and inches, and I know my childrens birth weights in pounds and ounces. Its just easier since we're fairly new converts to metric.

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

all tinned things (everything sold in shops, really) come in metric!

I dunno if the metric thing makes it difficult, though. a) weight-based rather than amount-based cooking seems to have been the norm here for a really long time and b) I'll have to ask my in-laws or something, I've only lived here for a year. :)