Einkorn Recipes

Home cooking built around einkorn, the oldest cultivated wheat, with flour stone-milled at home. The baking uses only einkorn flour, except the one loaf that's blended with whole wheat on purpose. A few hearty favourites need no flour at all.

Bread and baking

• 100% einkorn sandwich loaf

  A soft, honeyed tin loaf. Einkorn can't hold a free-form shape, so it bakes in a tin.

• Einkorn and whole wheat loaf

  Half einkorn, half whole wheat bread flour, strong enough to bake as a free-form boule.

• Einkorn pizza

  Four thin, crisp bases, pressed out rather than stretched.

• Einkorn flour tortillas

  Soft, thin tortillas that roll out without springing back.

• Einkorn cheddar crackers

  Thin, snappy crackers with sharp cheddar and smoked paprika.

Pasta

• Fresh einkorn pasta

  The base dough, and how to roll and cut every shape.

• Tagliatelle bolognese

  Slow beef and pork ragù with wine and milk, on fresh ribbons.

• Spinach and ricotta ravioli

  Filled einkorn ravioli in sage brown butter.

• Tagliolini carbonara

  Guanciale, egg yolks, pecorino and pepper, with no cream.

• Pappardelle with short rib ragù

  Short ribs braised in red wine and shredded into the sauce.

• Lasagne with fresh einkorn pasta

  Hand-rolled einkorn sheets, a slow beef and pork ragù, and an einkorn béchamel.

• Chicken lasagne

  A white lasagne of chicken, mushrooms and spinach in an einkorn béchamel.

Pies and hearty dishes

• Beef skirt steak pie

  Skirt braised in ale under an einkorn shortcrust.

• Chicken pot pie

  Creamy chicken and vegetables under an einkorn pastry lid.

• Beef stew and dumplings

  Slow beef stew with big, fluffy einkorn tallow dumplings steamed on top.

• Toad in the hole

  Sausages in an einkorn Yorkshire pudding batter, with onion gravy.

Breakfast and sweet things

• Einkorn buttermilk pancakes

  Light and nutty, with a batter that thickens as it rests.

• Lemon blueberry scones

  Tender, lemony scones, frozen briefly before baking to hold their shape.

• Maple chocolate chip cookies

  Brown butter, maple syrup and dark chocolate.

No flour needed

• Cottage pie

  Beef in a reduced Worcestershire gravy under cheddar mash.

• Lancashire hotpot

  Lamb and onions slow-baked under crisp, tallow-brushed potatoes.

• Stout-braised short ribs

  Braised for 3 hours in stout and maple, then glazed in the reduced sauce.

• Tallow roast potatoes

  Parboiled, roughed up and roasted in smoking-hot beef tallow.