We went to the Outback Steakhouse a month or two ago and they served us this dark bread with a side of butter and I fell in love with it! It's my first time to taste and see such bread, so I asked my friend who is the author of Not Just a Food Blog what it was (but I couldn't remember the name. lol) and suggested an alternative which I can buy at the grocery store - Pumpernickel.
So I checked it out at our local grocery store and I did find one. I got it for $2.99, a little pricey compared to your regular white bread because they only sell half a loaf. I got it anyway to give it a try.
It says Real Jewish Pumpernickel and the origin of the pumperickel is in Germany? Ironic. Just sayin'. It tasted a "little" similar to what I had at the Outback resto, but not really that much 'coz I tasted the bread-ish flavor more. I don't know how to describe the black bread at the Outback resto 'coz it was sweet and it felt like it would melt in your mouth. Yes, it was really tasty. This piece I got from the grocery store is a little dry and very grainy. It makes me feel full though and helps promote proper digestion (sparing you the rest of the ugly details). I'm still trying to find a way on how to eat this without feeling like my whole throat is dry. I feel like dipping this into a glass of milk soon. Weird? Yes?
There's also an interesting fact on how this dark bread got its name according to the article I've read from wikipedia.org: The Philologist Johann Christoph Adelung states about the Germanic origin of the word that, in the vernacular, Pumpen was a New High German synonym for being flatulent, a word similar in meaning to the English "fart", and "Nickel" was a form of the name Nicholas, an appellation commonly associated with a goblin or devil (e.g., "Old Nick", a familiar name for Satan), or more generally for a malevolent spirit or demon. (See also the metal nickel, probably named for a demon that would "change" or contaminate valuable copper with this strange metal that was much harder to work.) Hence, pumpernickel is described as the "devil's fart," a definition accepted by the Stopes International Language Database,[2] the publisher Random House,[3] and by some English language dictionaries, including the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.[4] The American Heritage Dictionary adds "so named from being hard to digest."
"Devil's fart", how classy! Try eating it and you will know what the article is talking about. Don't say I didn't warn you! :)
So I checked it out at our local grocery store and I did find one. I got it for $2.99, a little pricey compared to your regular white bread because they only sell half a loaf. I got it anyway to give it a try.
There's also an interesting fact on how this dark bread got its name according to the article I've read from wikipedia.org: The Philologist Johann Christoph Adelung states about the Germanic origin of the word that, in the vernacular, Pumpen was a New High German synonym for being flatulent, a word similar in meaning to the English "fart", and "Nickel" was a form of the name Nicholas, an appellation commonly associated with a goblin or devil (e.g., "Old Nick", a familiar name for Satan), or more generally for a malevolent spirit or demon. (See also the metal nickel, probably named for a demon that would "change" or contaminate valuable copper with this strange metal that was much harder to work.) Hence, pumpernickel is described as the "devil's fart," a definition accepted by the Stopes International Language Database,[2] the publisher Random House,[3] and by some English language dictionaries, including the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.[4] The American Heritage Dictionary adds "so named from being hard to digest."
"Devil's fart", how classy! Try eating it and you will know what the article is talking about. Don't say I didn't warn you! :)
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Outback's bread is Honey Wheat bread. Here's a copycat recipe:
http://homecooking.about.com/od/breadrecipes/r/blbread17.htm