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I would recommend the spelt flour. It has a quite a different taste to normal wheat. There is something about its consititution - lack of gluten or something - that means it can't stand up to overproving or over mixing, so it's not recommended for bread machines unless mixed half and half with white flour.
You also make quite a sloppy mix with it on purpose. Basically as long as you are prepared for it to look more like soda bread/scone (ie not a well risen loaf) it's an ideal beginner's, lazy person's or pushed-for-time bread. The Dove's Farm one which seems to be about most has you beat it for 10 mins with a wooden spoon, tip out (you don't really use your grubby paws at all!), prove for half an hour, bake (I expect you could do the mixing in your swish Kenwood  ).
I prefer the flatter loaf rather than the tin. I would recommend trying it but if you think Mrs T is a bit uncertain show her this thread first so she knows what to expect.
Actually I haven't done any for a while, if there should be some in the shop tomorrow I'll try and make one this weekend to show y'all - she can only do better than me 
Really nice as a bread to enjoy on its own, with cheese or jam/honey, and probably meat too. Not a sandwich loaf.
Or alternatively you can mix it with white flour (I think there's a recipe on the pack for this) and make a normal loaf, but I've not tried this.
I've also made it for an Italian colleague who has a wheat intolerance, it passed muster with her as well |
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Sainsbury's To You, (online delivery) have Doves Farm spelt flour for £1.29 for a kilo. I assume some of their stores would stock it too. I've not seen it anywhere else, though I assume health food stores would have it.
I only came across spelt flour for the first time last year, but I'd like to try using it. I'll let you know how I get on. My bread maker has a setting for dough, so I expect it would be OK if I stick a bit of ordinary strong white flour in with it, then use the oven to bake it.
We bought a packet of crisp bread rolls while in France last week. It said it contained 6 cereals, (and didn't count the ordinary wheat flour among the six!) I didn't recognise the names of most of them - it WAS in French! One was maize, and another couple might well have been barley and rye, but I have a suspicion that the other half were fancy varieties of wheat, probably including spelt. The rolls certainly were very tasty.
I think a bit of Internet research is called for. |
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