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Pumpernickel? I don't even know her... nickel?
Just read an intriguing post about a local bread-making class. I’ve been interested in bread-making but only tried once. Coincidentally, perhaps, I made pumpernickel and was always pleased to tell everyone that it is really just rye bread with cocoa to make it dark. Well, the Wikipedia article there will tell you that this is merely American pumpernickel, and that Old World pumpernickel is not colored but just cooked longer to darken.
There’s also a bit about etymology in both links. Sounds spurious to me, when you pull words from other languages as roots for current words, but the references do date back to the 1700s.
O, my pumpernickel was, in a word, horrendous. It was insanely dense, and not in a good way.