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tigger



Joined: 13 Nov 2005
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Location: Bologna (Italy)
PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:02 pm    Post subject: emmer (farro) Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: West Yorkshire
PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: West Yorkshire
PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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Location: Bologna (Italy)
PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 06 7:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Just checked on the spelling - spelt (!) is épautre in french.

dougal



Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent
PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 06 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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 Café cookbooks...

marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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Location: West Sussex
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 06 7:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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