Sugar-Free Lent: Day Five
Oh Dear, I know that you can have delusions but I don't think that I'm so much on cold turkey. But I can SMELL cake. While I was out shopping I could smell a banana loaf. There was no such thing in sight.
On my way home I could smell the vanilla slice I didn't have just before I went sugar-free. And there was such a sweet smell in the air the closer I got home. Mind you, we live near a industrial bakery and it has been known that the surroundings smelled of doughnuts.
But apart from that, I still feel fine. well, almost. My liver was hurting very much yesterday, maybe I had a bit more cheese than I usually would have. I also had a bit of an energy dip around midday again.
And I made that wonderful quick and easy bread I was talking about yesterday. No sugar involved, not even to feed the yeast, no kneading of the dough and no time to sit and raise. You just mix:
- 400 g of wholemeal flour, you could use spelt flour if you like
- 300 g of seeds like pumpkin, sunflower, linseed or sesame seed or whatever you like
- 100 g of buckwheat flour
in a bowl.
In a jug you mix
- 500 ml of water with
- 3 tablespoons of cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- and 50 g of fresh yeast
Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and mix well together. It should be quite soft. Pour it into a well buttered square tin and bake for an hour at 160℃ .
This is how mine turned out:
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