Need a Spelt Bread Recipe to save $$$

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Hi,

  I am hoping to find a Spelt Bread Recipe with no yeast or sweeteners.  In the past, I have bought French Meadow Bakery bread and it is getting expensive.  I am hoping to find a recipe that works with a bread machine. 

  If you have treid the Spelt/Kamut Bread recipe on this site, let me know what your think.  Thanks:o)

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Mimij67

There are a lot on the internet: With our without milk, eggs, etc...
I prefer this simple one and I often double-toast it so it is fairly crunchy, but I also like it soft almost right out of the loaf pan.
 
3 Cups Whole Spelt Flour
1 Tsp Baking Soda
1/2-3/4 Tsp Salt
Mix dry ingredients
Add 1 TBS Olive Oil and  1 1/2 cups of water or until you have a thick dough. Spread in a non stick or buttered loaf pan.  Bake at 350 for 50 minutes (every oven different so check early)
Spelt flour is expensive, so not sure how much money you will be saving. But maybe a bit!

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Mrs. A

Thanks Mimi! I just made this recipe using brown rice flour. It was great! I halved it and put it in a small loaf tin. But the big hit was a recipe you shared recently for yellow squash fries on another thread. My four year old daughter couldn't get enough of those! Me either! Thank you for both recipes. Do you have any other recipes that you use a lot and love? :)

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veryhappymom

Thanks for the great recipe. ( I found cheap Spelt flour on Amazon.)  Does the bread rise very much and look similar to Frnch Meadow Bakery Bread or is it a little flat? 

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deir

I owuld think to get it like french meadows you would have to do a sourdough starter and I know Matia says no to that at least for most because homemade sourdough is wilder /stronger than store bought.. maybe you are far enough along i treatment to do an actual sourdough?

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Mimij67

Agree with Deir that FM uses wild yeast so it is chewier and more sour than the recipe I gave. I kind of go back and forth between the two. The recipe I use tastes sweeter and more cakey and doesn't hold up as well as a sandwich bread but I am not a big sandwhich eater anyway. I just like two thin slices with my morning eggs or yogurt with lots of butter, of course!
If you are on list 4 I would ask DR. Brizman about real sourdough because it may be an option. You can buy wild yeast starters  or just buy a local sourdough bread that is made with wild yeast (It will NOT list  commercial yeast as an ingredient)-we have MANY bakeries in the Bay ARea that use wild yeast which would be appropriate at the end of treatment but have to check with Dr. Brizman

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deir

You don't even need a starter. You just put some flour and water in a bowl and let it sit covered lightly. You "feed" it gradually with flour and then you have a starter after a while. There are lots of recipes online.
 
I buy a wheat sourdough for my family at traderjoes. if it just says wheat, salt, water - it is a true sourdough.