Baking with Ancient Grains

This pathbreaking book encompasses a wide range of baking recipes with whole flours—from simple cookies, crackers, and cakes to flatbreads, glorious sourdough loaves, stunning tarts, and festive bakes—all while introducing a new balance in baking for modern palates.

Inspired by the bounty of the Mediterranean, Baking with Ancient Grains offers captivating contemporary recipes, showing how pleasure at the table can go hand in hand with a better diet.

This balance is rooted in three guiding principles:
• Wholesome flours
• Heart-healthy olive oil
• Little to no sweeteners

Comprehensive yet accessible, with an emphasis on helping novice bakers succeed, this book builds on the eating philosophy the author brought to her previous two award-winning ancient grains cookbooks.

The 75 nutrient-packed recipes, savory or just sweet enough, are tailored for today’s health-aware readers, using olive oil and trending flours including buckwheat, sustainable millet, and fiber-rich rye. Each chapter includes an introductory essay, and the recipes are accompanied by timelines, tips, variations, and baker's notes.

“Baking with Ancient Grains makes healthier baking an alluring and attainable exploration of flavor, texture, color, and aroma. There is no one I trust more as a guide in this realm than Maria Speck.”—Ellie Krieger, RDN, PBS and Food Network host; two-time James Beard Award–winning cookbook author