Hunh. Easier than I thought.
It is super easy to make, and as long as you arenāt trying to perfectly copy a specific deli, very forgiving. It just takes time to cure.
I struggle with the rye bread though. I think the next batch is gonna have a teaspoon of molasses and use cake (low protein) flour as the base. Most of my ryes have just been too dense.
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Maybe less rye flour and more rye seeds? Cake flour just seems too fine. How about adding some baking powder?
I have experimentinā to do, and luckily flour is cheap ;D. The powder idea isnāt half bad, a little more leavening might make a better crumb.
Eta
Why didnāt I think of this!?
Potato. The secret to the soft texture is potato.
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Yes, Reinās Deli. Always a mandatory stop when driving that corridor.
In addition to the sandwiches, they have the best dill pickles around.
Now, if I can just remember that place with the worldās best whitefish salad, Iād have a mealā¦
I know its just like when I heard about celery!
It isnāt a big Sammie, but I did in 2009 to some small internet acclaim.
(Yep, its about me and my sandwich)
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We drive it all the time and have never stopped. I think because itās not even halfway and I have no interest in watching our children push a half eaten pickle around their plates while they complain about having to eat rye bread or that the chicken soup ātastes weird.ā
I can get that kind of behavior from them ten minutes away, why would I want to suffer on a road trip?
TL; DR: Kids are the worst.
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Right now, at this very moment I am sitting at a counter waiting on my pastrami rueben, thinking about everyone in this thread. My lime rickey is excellent today.
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Keep it, please. Why do sandwiches in the US have to be so damn big?
That looks like about 10 meals.
Itās actually just perspective, itās about the quarter of the size youād get at someplace like the Carnegie. Its easily one-handed. Looking at the loaf Iād say the bread is about ten centimeters by thirteen centimetres.
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Iām English. I like stingy fillings. This is a sandwich:
(I donāt like cucumber sandwiches, but whateverā¦)
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My great-uncle told me he went to school with Dinah Shore; didnāt remember it was Hume-Fogg. I always figured Iād just take his word for it. She still had a daytime talk show when I was a kid; among the guests were David Bowie and Iggy Pop (unfortunately, not when I was watching).
I just looked it up on Google Street View. I believe I ate there in 2001. It was definitely in that part of town (on Broadway if not West End Ave.), had glass bricks, etc. unless thereās another deli in Nashville that meets that description. I remember liking it, but donāt remember what I had. I do remember that my great-aunt had the tongue sandwich, and my grandfather took the leftovers with him. I made the requisite joke, āTongue sandwich? How do you tell which oneās which?ā
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It looks like the beginnings of a salad, stuck between two sponges.
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Condolences.
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Maybe try some semolina (1/4-1/2 cup)?
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Iām so over that Star movie; THIS is, a REAL heroās quest. As Brooklynese transplants in the Bay Area, my wife and I desperately seek the flavors of home. The Birkenstockers of Berkeley have forced Saulās, our local kosher-style deli, into the fat=flavor / lean= healthy dilemma. The results are wildly inconsistent. Sometimes almost there, other times flavorless leather. Even the color is strange.
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