Ezekiel Bread - Good Eats from the Bible

Bread. Slice it anyway you want, we love it. Some folks deprive themselves of the pleasure of hot baked bread, fresh from the oven because of it's main ingredient-refined white flour. There is a bread that anyone can enjoy, whether you are a diabetic, have high blood pressure or suffer from a host of other maladies that require you to cut out the refined white flour from your diet. That bread is Ezekiel Bread, the ingredients come directly from the Bible, it is made from a blend of four grains and four beans.

The list of ingredients are found in Ezekiel 4:9, Take thou also unto thee wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and finches (spelt), and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof. This is the bread that Ezekiel lived on for the two year he was in the dessert. The four grains, four beans combined with a few other ingredients is supposed to make a bread that is nutritionally complete.

You will need a small flour mill (available at most mass merchandise stores) to grind you own flour from the grains and beans.

Recipe for 2 loaves of Ezekiel Bread- 2 1/2 cups of wheat berries/ 1 1/2 cups spelt flour/ 1/2 cup barley/ 1/2 cup millet/ 1/4 cup dry green lentils/ 2 tablespoons of dry Great Northern beans/ 2 tablespoons of dry kidney beans/ 2 table spoons of dry Pinto beans/ 4 cups warm water/ 1 cup honey/ 1/2 cup olive oil/ 2 packages (.25oz) of dry active yeast./ 2 tablespoons of salt.

Directions- measure the warm water, honey, olive oil and yeast into a large bowl. let sit for 5 minutes. Stir all the grains and beans together, grind in a flour mill. Add the fresh ground flour and salt to the yeast mixture, stir until well mixed, about 10 minutes. The dough will like that of batter bread. Pour dough into 2 greased 9 x 5 loaf pans. Let the dough rise for 1 hour. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or until the loaves turn a golden brown.

Makes 24 servings of dark, crusty delicious bread-nutritional information per serving-calories 220, total fat 5g, cholesterol 0g, sodium 585mg, total carbs 40g, dietary fiber 5g, protein 6g.

I have made this bread on many occasions for social events and it has always been a hit, both with folks on diets and those not on diets.