Organic Granny

  Soda bread is the perfect accompaniment with any rustic casseroles or soups, particularly if they are Irish and on St. Paddy's day.  This recipe is especially yummy because it is made with spelt flour , an ancient grain flour that is kind of suited to cakes and muffins, in my opinion. Once in our local health store I was searching madly for spelt flour, and ran into another woman who was as well. We joined in a mutual rave. If you aren't baking with it yet, you will like it a lot when you do. Here are the ingredients for the soda bread 3 cups  spelt flour   (or 1 3/4 cup plain white flour, 1 1/4 cup of whole wheat flour) 1/2 cup  rolled oats 1 teaspoon  salt 1 teaspoon  baking soda  (NOT baking powder) 1 tablespoon  fennel seeds or currents  (optional) 1 1/4 cup  non-dairy milk  (I used almond milk--oat, rice, soy are all good neutral-tasting choices) 1 tablespoon  apple cider vinegar or lemon juice Discover vegan colca...

When I published a recipe for a Soft Wholewheat Bread made in a Crockpot, a few people asked me if there was a crockpot recipe for vegan, gluten-free bread?  Well, the short answer is, there ARE a few such recipes on the Interweb... so hurrah!     (If you wish, bypass next paragraphs and scroll down to recipe 💁 ) But, of course, I want to have a recipe that I can make right away and made some adaptations to various of the recipes I came across to fit my particular old crockpot that doesn't accommodate a bread pan like some of the long, oval slow-cookers do (I'm using the word "crockpot" to also refer to slow-cookers and electronic pots like Instant Pot that have a slow-cook program on their menu).  (If you wish, bypass next paragraphs and scroll down to recipe 💁 ) This is my old slow-cooker or crockpot. It's pretty basic-- on/off, high, low-- no way to set a timer, no pre-programmed recipes, etc. I bought it for our older son who was off to University far aw...