I will not be able to show you the inside just yet (it need to mature for 48 hours) but since it's my first time making it I really want to show you this beauty (also since there is no yeast in this bread the inside kind of look like the outside).

For those who don't know pumpernickel is a bread made only with cracker rye, water and salt (not yeast or flour at all).

To be honest, I can't even find cracked rye on amazon in Italy, so I just took some rye grains (much easier to find and cheap too) and used an electric coffee grinder without going all the way through to achieve a similar texture. I basically broke the grains, leaving a coarse texture. And it seems to have worked.…