Maria’s New Spelt Bread recipe
1
cup warm water
1 package of yeast
1 teaspoon of
salt
2 table spoons of honey
3 ½ cups of spelt
2
table spoons oil ( butter or coconut oil)
Dissolve yeast in
warm water with honey
Add ½ of the ground spelt and the salt ( all of the salt)
Let
it soak for 30 minutes and rise
Punch down and add the rest of the flour and the oil
Let
it rise again and or just form bread loaves at this time
Let loafs rise to desired height.
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key to rising well seems to be covering dough with a warm damp cloth while rising.
Marias' Spelt Bread
( soaked in milk makes large quanity)
10 cups fresh organic ground spelt
(save out 5 or more cups extra to add to dough to make ball, continue to add this flour until dough forms a ball that
is workable with this extra flour, this is saved this for morning)
When forming your loaves coat hands with oil
5 cups Raw Milk ( substitute cultured buttermilk instead if raw milk is unavailable)
soak this over night
(aprox. 6-12 hrs.)
In morning add
2/3 C. butter
1 cup raw honey
4 TSP sea salt
Heat up in a separate pan (low heat)
3 cups warm water ( can use warm beer)
3 teaspoons raw honey
4 TSP yeast
First mix 10 cups of ground spelt to 5 cups of milk mix and let it sit for over night or up to at
least 6 hours.
In morning add 1 cup of warm water mixed with yeast and 3 teaspoons of honey, add it to dough when
it gets bubbly. Add the extra 2 cups of water (or if your using the beer)
Then add the salt and melted butter as
well as the extra honey. ( you may subsitue honey with sugar for a sweeter taste) This will be soupy until you add the
extra unsoaked flour you held out when you started. This amount varries . Add This extra flour slowly until the dough
is a workable ball. Not sticky. ( may take 5 or 10 cups more of flour)
Blend together
This is a large batch of bread
makes about 7-8 loaves.
let the dough rise
punch dough down let rise again, coat hands with light
coconut oil and the bread pans.
form loaves and stick in oven or cover loaves with damp warm cover ( this keeps
draft off bread) when it has risen to desired height , turn over on 350 degrees until golden brown
Try not to open
door often as it can make bread sink
I often skip the first rising (due to lack
of time) and form bread dough right away . Place dough in oven and go about my daily life during the day as it is rising.
About dinner time , I turn on oven and it is done before dinner. (Before I finish preparing dinner) This comes out just fine
when I do this.
Cara Muntean
The Plain Grain Co. LLC
Cara's Families daily Spelt Bread
( you will need about 5 lbs of spelt berries (ground ) for this recipe)
Place 8 cups of ground spelt in large mixer or mixing bowl
Add 2 2/3 cups of raw milk or subsitute cultured
buttermilk .
Mix up and let it soak over night ( or if you start very early morning / mix rest at dinner time)
Add
: 1/2 cup of organic Lard ( melted) ( subsitute of coconut oil will do)
1 cup of sugar
2 beaten eggs
(organic)
1 tsp sea salt
2 cups of luke warm water with a cake of yeast ( 3 TBSP) let this sit for a momment until
it bubbles ( I add a touch of sugar to it for faster results by using the measuring cup I used for the sugar)
Add this
now to the bread dough
Now slowly knead ( or let your mixer knead this) as you add the remaining amounts of flour ( about
16 more cups ) this amount varries always with me so just add it until the dough makes a ball which you can handle that is
not too sticky but still workable .
Let this rise .
Punch it down , make these into loaves ( makes about 5 loaves)
I place these into greased ( lard) pans and place these in a oven to rise without a draft. When they have risen , Bake these
at 350 until golden brown.
You can add some Gelatin unflavored to the recipe to help with the crumbling.
Cara's Choco Oatmeal spelt cookies ( this is a winner!!!)
2 cups of butter
24 oz. chocolate chips
4 cups of spelt flour (fresh ground)
5 cups of Oatmeal ( this can be ground to make a smoother cookie)
2 tsp.
soda
1 tsp. sea salt
2 cups of sugar
2 cups of brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder ( aluminum
free)
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups of chopped walnuts
for a crunchy cookie , leave oatmeal unblended. For a
smoother cookie you may run the oatmeal through your blender)
Cream the butter and add both the sugar ,eggs and vanilla.
Mix this and add the spelt and the oatmeal
add baking powder,soda,salt , chips and nuts
roll these into balls
and bake at 375
makes about 112 cookies
Spelt Tortillas
1 cup of fresh ground spelt + 1/4 for board
1/4 teasp salt
1/2 teasp. of oil (coconut oil, peanut
oil , olive oil)
1/3 cup water
Combine 1 cup flour , salt oil and water. Put remaining flour on board. Roll into a ball (dough)
as you do flatten and fold dough.
In a few minutes you will feel the dough become more workable. (like play dough).
Divide into 4-6 balls of dough. working the dough on the board , roll each and pat into a thin flattened circle about
5-7 in. dia. . Heat griddle . It is ready when you can drop a bit of water on it and it sizzles. bake the tortilla for about
2 minutes , remove to a wire rack to cool.
Spelt Pie Crust
3 TBS.oil
2 TB. cool water
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup + 2 TB spelt flour
Whisk oil , water and salt together,
Stir in the flour and mix only until evenly moistened. Press into a 9 in. pie plate . Fill and bake as required for filling.
Or bake empty pie crust for 12 min. at 375 . (fill when cool)
Spelt Hot Cereal
Roll or coarsely grind grain ( 1 cup)
place into a pan
add 1
teasp whey , lemon jucie or water
cover this and let it sit over night (you do this in the evening after dinner, this
soaks the grains and makes them more digestible)
In morning add a touch of water and bring to a boil. You may add
a TB of ground flax ( in evening to soak with this) serve with butter and salt or if you like it sweeter serve with butter
, honey or maple syrup.
