Bread and Broken Resolutions

Well it has taken some time to come back and get postiung again. I really meant to get going but somehow.. Anyway...

A recent discovery that I need to lose a little weight has led me back to making bread. I always make soup for lunch with my wife - wholesome and low calorie but add a sandwich and the calories come along. Well I noticed Spelt Flour in my local Tesco which claimed it was the grain the Roman's used to make bread and gave a recipe for Roman Bread. Intrigued, I bought some to try.

Well Roman Bread Making is not quite like we do now in that the Spelt rises rather better so the job of making the dough is quite short. I popped two round sheets of the dough on a backing sheet, left them to rise and baked them. The result stuck a bit to the sheet but the stone ground wholemeal bread produced had wonderful flavour, not least as the sugar in repaced by honey in this bread. (They hadn't invented sugar in those days!). I found this bread, with a bowl of soup, made a great lunch and cut the calories too, A second attempt used round cake tins and greaseproof paper on the bottom and the bread came out fine.

Well after that, the bread maked from the garage got ressurected and I bought normal stone ground flour. A loaf takes nearly 3 hours to cook but only a few minutes to pop the ingredients in the machine and the smell as the loaf cooks is amazing. I am now converted to making bread which lasts us a couple of days. It is really worth having a go.