Hi and welcome back to our channel in
this video we would like to tell you all
you need to know about the German bread
before coming to Germany. For 30
thousand years humans has been eaten
bread in order to survive, but just until
6,000 years ago people ate only
flat bread in Germany. We have over 3,000
different breads registered and that
makes Germany the country with the
largest bread diversity in the world.
From one square meter field farmer can
produce 3 and 1/2 kilo white bread or two
and half kg rye bread. In 2018 private
households both 1.681.000
ton bread that is
twenty-one point two kilo bread per head.
And now let us move on to the most sold
bread varieties. The most popular German
bread is a rye wheat bread which is
called Mischbrot or Graubrot. There are
two different types of this particular
bread: one of it is called Roggenmischbrot and
has more than 50% of rye and the other one
is calles Weizenmischbrot and has more than 50% wheat flour. Apart
from flour this type of bread contains
water, sourdough and spices. The mixed
bread is our basic bread so the toppings
can be savory, sweet, mild tasting and
rich in flavour. The next on the list is
the Vollkornbrot. There are many whole wheat breads out there but I wanted to
show you this particular one. The bread
that you can see on the screen is called
pumpernickel and it's very durable. It
takes at least 16 hours to bake it and
steam it and this particular one is made
of whole grain rye flour as well as
water, sourdough and spices. And because
this bread itself has a very rich flavour
I love serving it with a flavourful toppings.
and by the way I would love you to let
me know what is your favourite bread! The
next on the list is the Roggenbrot -
so rye bread this particular bread has
more than 90% rye flour and apart from rye
flour it contains also water, yeast or
and sour dough, as well as spices. This
bread has a very intense taste and it
doesn't go well with everything. I like
eating it with ingredients that are rich
in flavour. And now finally we get talk
about Weizenbrot. Wheat bread
has more than 90% wheat flour and
although it's less durable than the rye
bread it's easier to digest. Some
people for some reason consider this
particular bread as not healthy one, but it
actually contains more roughage than an
apple, so I will let you rethink that! And
because the wheat bread is mild itself
I like serving it with mild toppings
like mild cheese or ham. The next very
popular bread in Germany is called Mehrkornbrot -
Multigrain bread. This
particular bread contains two or more
types of grains it is popular to
add barley, corn or millet and
because most of the multigrain bread
contained seed I love serving them with
smooth, velvety and mild toppings. And the
last on my list is the spelt bread. In
German Dinkelbrot. In Germany for the
breads to be called spelt bread it means
to have more than 90% spelt. The bread
contains spelt flour, water, yeast and or
sourdough and spices. Spelt whole-grain
bread was chosen as a bread of the year
in 2018 I love serving it with the
German white cheese called quark and
vegetables. So no you know exactly what bread to eat
on your trip to Germany. In the
description box bwon below I put 1) the
name of the bakery where I got all the
breads - it is bakery from Frankfurt and
it's called Kröger's Brötchen 2) also there
you're going to find the bread varieties
I mentioned in this video as well as the
recommended toppings for those
particular breads 3) also in the
description box I'm gonna put
the names of the bakeries from Frankfurt
where you can try German sandwiches that are colled "Stulle"
and please don't forget to let me know
what is your favoruite bread. If you don't
know me yet my name is Marta from Cooking the World and I am food guide here in
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travels and I see the next one! Bye
