rye

     

Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain an forage crop. It is a member of the wheat tribe (Triticeae) and is closely related to barley and wheat. Rye grain is used for flour, rye bread, rye beer, some whiskies, some vodkas, and animal fodder. It can also be eaten whole, either as boiled rye berries, or by being rolled, similar to rolled oats.

Trivia about rye

  • Of Rye, White or Pumpernickel, it's the city where chief justice John Jay is buried
  • The field of this in which Holden Caulfield imagined himself could have been grown for feed
  • Pumpernickel bread is made primarily of this grain
  • This lawn grass, genus lolium, is not to be confused with the cereal grass, genus secale
  • To make pumpernickel, use the dark flour of this grain
  • An alliterative potable is made with "rock" (candy) & this type of whiskey
  • With brands like Old Overholt, whiskey made from this grain, not corn, was once a favorite of the American sot
  • Pumpernickel refers to a dark type of this bread
  • Grain for sandwich bread
  • It's the plant seen here; Don Draper favors one of its products
  • An episode of "Seinfeld" concerned a marbled loaf of this type of bread

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