Kneippbrød (; "Kneippbread") is a

whole wheat bread Whole wheat bread or wholemeal bread is a type of bread made using flour that is partly or entirely milled from whole or almost-whole wheat grains, see whole-wheat flour and whole grain. It is one kind of brown bread. Synonyms or near-synony ...

. It is named for

Sebastian Kneipp Sebastian Kneipp (; 17 May 1821 – 17 June 1897) was a German Catholic priest and one of the forefathers of the naturopathic movement. He is most commonly associated with the "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy (often called "Kneipp therapy" o ...

(1821–1897), a 19th-century Bavarian

priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...

and hydrotherapist. It is the most popular bread in Norway.''DinSide''. "
Norge på brødtoppen
'" ("Norway on the Bread-top"). 10 Jul 2006. Accessed 22 Jan 2013. In Norway, Kneippbrød must be made mostly from whole meal wheat flour and must weigh 750 grams.

History

The publisher Søren Mittet first brought Dr. Kneipp's recipe to

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

, where the bakery Baker Hansen AS officially licensed it in 1895. The recipe and name were quickly copied. The official

Oslo breakfast The Oslo breakfast was a type of uncooked school meal developed in the 1920s and rolled out as a free universal provision for Oslo school children in 1932. It typically consisted of bread, cheese, milk, half an apple and half an orange. Ingredi ...

(''Oslofrokosten'') first prepared for Norwegian schools in 1929, employed a coarse form of the bread. According to FEDIMA, as of 2006, more than 60 million loaves were consumed annually.

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Norwegian breads Whole wheat breads {{Bread-stub

History

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