Spelt Bread

Ingredients

3 cups spelt flour
1 cups warm water
1 tbs yeast
1 tsp salt
3 tbs honey
3 tbs coconut oil

1. Dissolve yeast in the warm water (I’m doing this in the bread-maker…you can also do it in your mixer). Add honey and coconut oil. Mix until there are no lumps. (I think I get the lumps because I’m using raw honey).
2. Add salt and half of the spelt flour. Mix and let rise 30 minutes.
3. Gradually add remaining spelt flour and mix until you have a nice dough. Allow to rise another 20-30 minutes and then bake. (I am using the shortest baking cycle with the bread maker, and use a spatula to help it form a nice dough. I don’t think you have to help the bread maker when using white flour. Or you by a bread-maker that is for gluten-free flours or non-white flours).
4. For those of you baking it in the oven, bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. (Depending on your prefered crust color).

As with most homemade bread loaves, this one tastes divine warm with butter on top! It is rich, moist and oh, soo good. Enjoy.

p.s. Don’t want to wait twice for it to rise? I have found that if I mix the first 2 c of spelt flour with the other ingredients, wait a few minutes, and then mix in the remaining cup, it still works magically, and in a third less time.