Bread Machine Whole Spelt Bread

Total Time: 3 hrs 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups water, lukewarm
• 2 tablespoons butter, cut into 4-6 bits
• 3 cups spelt flour, organic
• 1 tablespoon vital wheat gluten
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed light brown
• 1 teaspoon bread machine yeast
• 1/2 teaspoon bread machine yeast
• flax seed
• sunflower seeds, raw
• 1/2 cup spelt flour, for kneading and shaping

Recipe

• 1 insert all items into bread machine starting with the first listed ingredient and ending with the yeast or seeds/nuts. keep the extra spelt for kneading it into the loaf shape of your choice.
• 2 set machine to dough cycle (1.5 hours for me).
• 3 when it finishes, powder your hands with the extra spelt flour and grab the dough.
• 4 shape it into a loaf shape, using extra spelt as necessary to shape.
• 5 place in a greased loaf pan.
• 6 turn your oven to the lowest temperature for two minutes. then shut it off and place your loaf in there.
• 7 let rise for about 35 minutes. it'll maybe not look too tall, but don't worry. it should have at least grown by 50%.
• 8 turn oven on to 375 degrees. bake for 35 minutes (don't worry about preheat time. those 8 minutes are included when i did it).
• 9 bread should be pretty much done, but let it slide out of loaf pan and cook on wire rack in oven for 10 more minutes at 300 degrees.
• 10 when done, let it cool for ten minutes. you can avoid the urge to start eating by getting coffee going.
• 11 enjoy, with or without coffee.