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tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:02 pm Post subject: emmer (farro)
Is this only sold in Italy? It's really popular here : in vegetable soups, with pulses, in pasta. But no-one I've spoken to in England has heard of it.

nora

Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Posts: 1539
Location: West Yorkshire

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:11 pm Post subject:
I've found it.......its a hulled wheat. Heres a link to it. https://www.farro.com/ Thats an American site though so I don't know if you can get it in the UK.

nora

Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Posts: 1539
Location: West Yorkshire

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:16 pm Post subject:
You can get it mail order here https://www.machiavellifood.co.uk/product.php?productid=16169&cat=261&bestseller Says its called spelt in England. What can you make with it?

tigger

Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 725
Location: Bologna (Italy)

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:25 pm Post subject:
Soups, like I said. My children love the potato and farro soup they get for school lunches. Our school is very good about using organic produce as far as possible. Also bread, foccaccia, pasta, stews etc. Used since roman times and much appreciated as it grows well on poor soils

nora

Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Posts: 1539
Location: West Yorkshire

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:27 pm Post subject:
Sounds good, i'll look out for it and see if its for sale in any of the shops round here.

treaclepuss

Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 139

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:43 pm Post subject:
Dove's Farm used to sell spelt flour - useful for people with a wheat sensitivity (not for coeliacs, though). It's very tasty.

treaclepuss

Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 139

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:46 pm Post subject:
Just checked on the spelling - spelt (!) is �pautre in french.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 06 9:22 pm Post subject:

treaclepuss wrote:

Dove's Farm used to sell spelt flour - useful for people with a wheat sensitivity (not for coeliacs, though). It's very tasty.

Still do, I think. Others sell it too.
Its low in gluten, so in bread its best used IMHO as component - up to about 30% of the total flour.
And it does make for a deeper sort of flavour.
I believe its an ancient predecessor (ancestor?) of our modern wheats. And I have a feeling that its flour always been more popular (and hence available) in Germany than here.

But its pretty rare to find grains (rather than flour), though of course its called for in the River Caf� cookbooks...

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 06 7:04 am Post subject:
You can buy spelt grain from https://www.wheatgrass-uk.com/acatalog/Basic_Products.html and https://www.infinityfoods.co.uk

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