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Cereals and bread from Joutseno, South Karelia, Finland

Joutsenon rieska (Joutseno sour rieska)Joutsenon rieska

Joutsenon rieska is a thick, leavened barley and wheat flatbread from Joutseno in South Karelia. In most of Finland rieska is an unleavened flatbread, but in the south-east it is a thick leavened bread of barley and wheat flour, water and buttermilk; Finnish Wikipedia calls the Joutseno bread a sour bread (hapanleipä).

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Joutsenon rieska itself.

Short entryCereals and bread

Recipe

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Barley and wheat flour[fiwiki-rieska]
Water and buttermilk (piimä)[fiwiki-rieska]
Startersour leavening (hapanleipä) per Finnish Wikipedia; Wikidata lists baker's yeast, so modern recipes may use yeast
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What changes: Barley and wheat flour are mixed with buttermilk into a dough

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Mix a barley and wheat dough with buttermilk and water
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Output: dough.

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At a glance

Joutsenon rieska is a thick, leavened barley and wheat flatbread from Joutseno in South Karelia. In most of Finland rieska is an unleavened flatbread, but in the south-east it is a thick leavened bread of barley and wheat flour, water and buttermilk; Finnish Wikipedia calls the Joutseno bread a sour bread (hapanleipä).

What makes this one different

Most Finnish rieska is unleavened, made from barley, oats or potato with some wheat. In south-east Finland rieska is a thick leavened bread, and the Joutseno one is known as a sour bread; the unleavened South Karelian barley bread is called kovaohranen instead.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Tattaririeska (South Karelia)Sour-dough rieska with buckwheat flour in the sour.

Safety

The bread is baked.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

Joutsenon rieska was named one of Joutseno's parish dishes (pitäjäruoat) in the 1980s. Lappeenranta museums hold photographs of rieska-making demonstrations at the Joutseno parish house in 1974 and 1982.

  1. [fiwiki-rieska] Finnish Wikipedia, Rieskawiki
  2. [fiwiki-joutseno] Finnish Wikipedia, Joutseno (culture section)wiki
  3. [wikidata] Wikidata Q138717527wiki
  4. [commons] Wikimedia Commons, Category:Joutsenon rieska (Lappeenranta museums, photographer Aarne Mikonsaari)archive