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Roman Style Slipper Loaf

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This Roman bread is made with a slightly wetter dough than many bread recipes the resulting loaf has an appealing wheaty flavour and good crumb structure. The title of this recipe is based on the recipe writing of the Roman scholar Apicius.

Customer rating: CakeCakeCakeCakeCake 5 customer reviews

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Ingredients

500 gWholegrain Spelt Flour
½ tspSalt
1 tspQuick Yeast
1 tbspHoney
400 mlWater
1 tbspOlive Oil

Method

  1. Mix together the flour, salt and quick yeast in a large bowl.
  2. Dissolve the honey in the water and roughly mix it into the flour.
  3. While the dough is still lumpy add the oil and mix to form a dough.
  4. Pick up the sticky dough and throw it back into the bowl. Do this 100 times.
  5. Cut the dough in half and drop the pieces onto a large oiled baking tray which has been dusted with flour.
  6. Dust the loaves with flour and gently form into an oval.
  7. Leave to rise in a warm place for 25 minutes.
  8. Bake in a pre-heated oven for 30/35 minutes.


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Temperature & cooking time:
200°C/Fan 180°C/400°F/Gas 6

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4 stars: 1
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By Mrs Cindy Arrighi

26 Nov 2011 | 20:03 GMT

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I just made this....As far as I know 1lb. of flour is 16 oz...in a dry measure...please anyone, tell me if it's wrong. I had to add more flour and then I realized I didn't have "quick" yeast, but I had 50% faster rising yeast, so I used it...it came out good, but why did I have to add more than 2 cups of flour? By the way, it tastes pretty good..!

By Miss rebecca mallett

29 Mar 2011 | 06:51 BST

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just made this bread, its fabulous, so tasty, very moist and fluffy, too good!

By Dr Bruce allinson

25 Jun 2010 | 20:14 BST

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made this with the Kids at church for communion. They loved making it an loved eating it even more a great treat

By Ice Cream

03 Dec 2009 | 14:14 GMT

Rating: CakeCakeCakeCakeCake

This bread was lovely!! It had a nutty texture and everyone in my family loved it so much that it did not even last a day.

By Mrs hannah walker

26 Oct 2009 | 19:04 GMT

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I made this with my sons this morning and they absolutely adored it! They loved the whole idea of making bread the way the Romans did.
THe bread itself was lovely, wheaty and had a lighter look and taste to normal spelt bread. Would reccomend.