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title: Spelt Bread Recipe for a Bread Machine
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Do you have a bread machine lying around but don’t make bread anymore because you’re avoiding wheat?

My husband brought his bread maker into our marriage in 1999, and in the early years we often made delicious fresh bread. But after my son’s 2009 MRT results showed that he was sensitive to wheat, I tried a number of wheat-free variations and after ending up with a number of inedible hockey pucks, gave it up and put the bread machine in the basement.

Recently we put up a new shelf in our laundry room and relocated the small appliances that had previously been relegated to random locations like the top of the basement freezer and underneath the stairs. Which reminded me that we had a bread maker. And of the amazing aroma of freshly baked bread. And of walking home through the pre-dawn cobblestone streets of Florence, Italy, in the early 1990s, and rounding a corner and catching the hot, yeasty, crusty perfume emanating from a bakery hidden behind a high wall.

But, I digress.

Spelt, as I have noted before in this blog, is NOT THE SAME AS WHEAT, but _behaves a lot like wheat in recipes_. Spelt is an ancient cousin of wheat and has not been hybridized and tinkered with the way we have done with wheat in the US. Though it is a gluten grain, so if you are a serious Celiac sufferer, spelt won’t work for you.

Halleluiah! Let us all, and by _all_ I mean both the _wheat-tolerants_ and the _wheat-intolerants_ among us, celebrate the purity of spelt!

Here’s an easy spelt bread recipe that should work in most standard breadmakers. Use the cycle for “white bread with fresh milk or liquid.”

# 1 lb. loaf Spelt Bread

1 cup water
2 Tbs. vegetable oil
3 Tbs. honey, organic cane sugar, pure maple syrup, or other natural sweetener
1 tsp. salt
3 cups spelt flour
1 ½ tsp. yeast

# 1 ½ lb. loaf Spelt Bread

1 **⅓** cup water
3 Tbs. vegetable oil
1/4 cup natural sweetener (see list above)
1 ½ tsp. salt
4 cups spelt flour
2 ½ tsp. yeast

Bake according to bread machine’s instructions.