Spelt in Cambridge
In Cambridge, East of England, Honest Bread lists 3 bakers known for spelt, each baking from scratch on its own premises.
Spelt bakers in Cambridge
Cobs Bakery (Cambridge Organic Bakery)
Organic wholesale bakery in Cambridge using long, slow fermentation to make white sourdough, a malted four-grain, whole spelt and a molasses-and-caraway dark rye. It supplies shops, markets, restaurants and university colleges across the city and is now run.
Stir
Cambridge bakery and cafe group whose breads, cakes and pastries are handmade and baked fresh daily at its Chesterton bakery. Its range centres on sourdoughs and other slow-fermented loaves made with organic UK-milled Shipton Mill flour.
The Cambridge Oven
Family-run artisan bakery on Hills Road opened in 2018, making breads, sourdoughs and pastries from scratch each morning. It is a Real Bread Campaign member and bakes its sourdough using natural starters with no added bakers' yeast.
Bake spelt at home
No honest baker near you, or none baking today? The short answer is to bake your own. This is the bench most scratch bakers start with, nothing more.
Wholegrain spelt flour
Spelt wants a gentler knead and a shorter prove than modern wheat.
Compare on Amazon ↗Digital kitchen scales
Real recipes are written in grams. Scales first, everything else second.
Compare on Amazon ↗Banneton proving basket
Holds the shape of a soft spelt dough through its final prove.
Compare on Amazon ↗Bread lame
Scores the loaf so it bursts where you choose, not where it likes.
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