Best Its Spelt Protein Bread Recipes

SPELT SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• Combine all the ingredients in the bowl and stir until it is well combined. The dough will have a rough, chunky look.
• Dump the dough onto a work surface and knead the dough with your hands until it is smooth. Approximately 10 to 12 minutes. (Essentially, you are massaging the dough by stretching and pushing. This will help develop the gluten.) At this stage, it will be wet and sticky. Try not to add more flour or your finished bread will be dense and heavy. The dough will stick to your hands and feel messy but if you get your hands wet it won't stick as easily.
• Place the dough into an oiled bowl and turn it so oil coats the top of the dough. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature for 3 to 6 hours (see notes) or in the refrigerator overnight. (A longer proof time in the fridge will give the bread a more complex, sourdough flavor.)
• Turn the dough out onto a work surface and form it into a round ball. (See notes)
• Place the ball of dough into a proofing basket or any container that is the shape that you want your bread to be shaped. (See notes)
• Let the dough rise again a second time for 3 to 6 hours** at room temperature until almost doubled in size. (Or you could let it rise in the fridge overnight for 12 to 15 hours)
• Preheat the oven to 450°F. Place the Dutch oven inside so it gets hot. It should take 20 to 30 minutes to preheat the Dutch oven.
• Place a piece of parchment on a board then lay it on top of the proofing basket. Flip the board and basket so the basket is on top then remove the basket.
• When the oven is hot, use the parchment paper to place the bread into the Dutch oven. Make a slash in the loaf with a sharp knife. For an extra burst of steam and a slightly higher rise, spray the dough with a bit of water.
• Bake for 20 minutes then remove the lid and finish baking for another to 30 to 35 minutes.
• Let the bread cool completely before slicing it.

VERY SIMPLE SPELT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• In a large bowl, mix together the spelt flour, sesame seeds, salt, molasses, baking soda and milk until well blended. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Placing a tin of the same size over the top of the loaf while baking gives it a lovely crust.

IT'S SPELT PROTEIN BREAD

Steps:

• Mix all your dry ingredients together.
• Dissolve your honey in your warm water.
• Mix everything together in an upright mixer with a dough hook attachment.
• I put my mixer on a low setting, If you are old school, prepare for an arm work out, stir everything together until it is all very well incorporated. Now out of convenience I probably give the dough a good 10 minutes just rolling around in the mixer on low.
• Give your dough a few sprays with your oil. The dough should be able to roll into a ball, the bowl should be reasonably clean. Squirt or drizzle a bit of oil on top.
• Roll it out to a big fat sausage. For one loaf, just make a big sausage around the size of your loaf tin. You could also just make a bloomer style by putting a big ball on a baking sheet.
• Pop in a bread tin. If the bread tin is the approach you are going for, pop it in! I gave my tin a little spray with some more oil, then once the loaf was in I sprayed the top of that a bit too. Cover with clingfilm.
• Leave to rise until it has doubled in size. You can leave it in the fridge to proof over night if you wish, but I always cook mine the day I make it. One loaf I left out all day, it had risen high and mighty, when I came back it had collapsed, I gave it another kneading, let it sit for 30 mins or so. Seemed to cook fine, came out softer than the one in this post.
• Place in pre-heated oven at 180c for 40 minutes The loaf in the top picture came out with a very crisp top crust, really nice to be honest, but other loaves have come out with softer crusts. My way of telling if my loaf is cooked is to tap on the top with my nails. Is its crisp? Does it 'tap'? If it does I bring it out and knock on it, should sound hollow, should sound like that on the bottom too, should be able to stand nice and sturdy.
• Leave to cool, slice up and eat!