Just had a look at the verse which talks about 'Ezekial bread'. People attribute special health properties to it just because it is found in scripture. All it says is to mix wheat with beans and lentils and this was done so at time of famine. No mention of sprouting either.
“Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself.
But the entire chapter is about a really strange episode (Ezekiel 4:9-17). It's not simply some bread - the context is really weird and punitive. Ezekial has to eat this bread for more than a year, lying down tied up in front of a model city of Jerusalem. And that's just for starters.
Still, I've eaten the Ezekial brand bread sold in some US stores, and I thought it was quite decent.
I read it then posted my comment. Yes, I must have missed out a couple of ingredients. Was just pointing out it was done more for famine reasons as supposed to health and it doesn't directly mention sprouting.
When researching the 5 grains which one may not make bread out of for passover there is one word translated as 'spelt'. But importantly it is a more modern translation of a cryptic Hebrew word. Archeologists have found grain storage vessels from Ancient Israel and they found evidence of Emmer! Could this grain here, and the one mentioned for passover, actually be Emmer?
Now that is weird. I'll need to delve further and look that up.
Perhaps for a community bake this bread could be a contender. Post the passages and see what everyone comes up with.
Just had a look at the verse which talks about 'Ezekial bread'. People attribute special health properties to it just because it is found in scripture. All it says is to mix wheat with beans and lentils and this was done so at time of famine. No mention of sprouting either.
It's got more ingredients than those:
But the entire chapter is about a really strange episode (Ezekiel 4:9-17). It's not simply some bread - the context is really weird and punitive. Ezekial has to eat this bread for more than a year, lying down tied up in front of a model city of Jerusalem. And that's just for starters.
Still, I've eaten the Ezekial brand bread sold in some US stores, and I thought it was quite decent.
TomP
I said I would be riffing. Smile...
It would be a riff ;)
I read it then posted my comment. Yes, I must have missed out a couple of ingredients. Was just pointing out it was done more for famine reasons as supposed to health and it doesn't directly mention sprouting.
When researching the 5 grains which one may not make bread out of for passover there is one word translated as 'spelt'. But importantly it is a more modern translation of a cryptic Hebrew word. Archeologists have found grain storage vessels from Ancient Israel and they found evidence of Emmer! Could this grain here, and the one mentioned for passover, actually be Emmer?
Now that is weird. I'll need to delve further and look that up.
Perhaps for a community bake this bread could be a contender. Post the passages and see what everyone comes up with.
I would think "emmer". That's what the Egyptians of the day used, if I understand correctly.
There is evidence that sprouted flour has some benefits. So, way not?
Off topic
Today's ( mostly healthy) offering. Chicken & sausage gumbo. Omit the calorie and fat laden rue, in favor of ground sassafras as the thickener.