Honey & Spelt Bread
Honey & Spelt Bread
This Honey & Spelt Bread is one of my favourite bread recipes. The mixture of honey and spelt is wonderful. I like to have this with butter or toasted with a little honey. Very yummy!
Spelt flour is very good for those people who are gluten intolerant. I have used strong white bread flour in this recipe but you can substitute this will gluten free alternatives. I would use a mixer with a dough hook rather than to kneed by hand as it is much easier.
Ingredients
400g strong white bread flour (or Gluten free bread flour)
100g spelt
100g sponge
10g fresh yeast
5-8g salt
350g warm water
Equipment & Oven Settings
Turn your oven onto temperature 220C/Gas 7/425F
Large plastic bowl
Clean Tea Towel
Bread proving basket
Dough scraper x 2
Dough Scoring Knife
Bread Knife
Clingfilm
Method
- Weight all the ingredients
- Pour flours into the bowl
- Crumble the yeast and add to bowl
- Add salt
- Slowly add the 350g water and mix. If the mixture seems dry add more water until the mixture has a “wet” consistency
- Kneed for 10 minutes- do not add any extra flour when kneading
- Leave in a warm place to rise for 1-1 1/2 hours
- Use the dough scraper to scrape out the dough and gently flaten the dough until a size large A4 sheet of paper (landscape)
- Pull the corners into the centre of the rectangle until you have a small square shape
- Then repeat bringing the corners until you have a long sausage shaped dough
- Turn over and put into lightly floured proofing basket seam side up
- Leave for a second rise for approx 45 minutes
- Dust baking tray with semolina and place bread seam side down, add any topping and slash across
- Bake for 25 minutes at 220C (Place a bowl of water in an ovenproof container into the oven to create steam)
- Tap the bottom and you should hear a hollow sound, if not place back in the over for a few more minutes and check again
- Leave to cool on a wire rack for an hour