If you’re anything like me, you like to occasionally enjoy a nice slice of homemade bread, a cookie, or perhaps a cupcake–especially around the holidays. When I eat something that might not be the healthiest, I try to prepare it with real, wholesome ingredients thereby making it as healthy as possible.
Is Your Flour Made from a Mutant Wheat?
If you’ve read my article, Are You Still Eating Wheat? you probably already know why this bread is healthier than other breads. Not only does it contain einkorn flour (that isn’t a mutant wheat), it has milk kefir (or yogurt), a fermented milk, which acts as a preservative. This bread will stay fresh for longer than loaves made with just water or milk.
I Only Use Einkorn Wheat
Einkorn, is our oldest wheat and the only one left that has not been hybridized. Today, most wheat is sprayed with glyphosate before harvest. The wheat flour I’ve listed in my recipe from Amazon is tested for and does not contain glyphosate. It has a lower gliadin to glutenin ratio than modern wheat and can be tolerated by some who have gluten intolerance.
CAUTION: DO NOT eat this wheat or wheat bread, if a doctor has instructed you to avoid wheat or gluten!
Somehow, my recipe disappeared and I rewrote it today, May 6, 2025. Apologies if it isn’t exactly as it was before.
- *1 Cup Milk Kefir (or 4 oz unflavored yogurt and 4 oz. water)
- 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
- 3½ Cups Jovial's Einkorn Flour
- 3 Tablespoons Organic Evaporated Cane Juice
- 1½ Teaspoons Sea Salt (Celtic Salt or Himalayan)
- 1½ Heaping Teaspoons Instant Dry Yeast
- Add wet ingredients - milk kefir (or yogurt/water) and olive oil to bread machine pan.
- Add dry ingredients - Einkorn flour, evaporated cane juice, sea salt, yeast.
- Lock pan into machine.
- Set machine to 1⅕ lb, Basic, and Light or Medium (whichever is your preference)
- Press: START
- Enjoy a slice of warm, delicious bread!
Be sure to follow the instructions for your particular bread machine.
Zojirushi BB-PDC20BA Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker, 2 lb. loaf of bread, Stainless Steel/Black
This is my favorite bread recipe. Great texture and flavor. I’ve made it many many times now over the years. I don’t always have the special flour, and half wheat or 9 grain flour and half white still turns out great. Likewise I’ve subbed honey or maple syrup for cane syrup with no problems. If you’re considering trying this recipe, go for it!
I’m so glad you like this recipe, and really appreciate you took the time to leave such a nice review! Thank you!
I love maple syrup in anything (especially in my homemade yogurt), but I stopped using honey for cooking or anything hot after reading Sarah Pope’s article about it. You might want to check it out: The Healthy Home Economist article on honey. If you do, I hope you’ll let me know what you think.