Viking Flatbread | Food Wishes

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with Viking flatbread. That's right, as promised during our recent Viking stew video, I'm going to show you my new favorite way to make flatbread, which believe it or not is based on a recipe that's over a thousand years old. And to get started, we will add some wheat flour to a bowl.

And this would be more authentic if you used whole grain. But to honor a thousand years of evolution, I'm going to use allpurpose for a little bit of a nicer texture. And then to that, we will add a couple very ancient grains. Some spelt flour, which is a relative of wheat. And then last but not least, some rye flour, which probably would have been the most common flour used during the Viking times.

And then what we'll do is add a nice big pinch of salt before

we give our dry ingredients a quick mix with a spoon. And once that's been accomplished, we can pour in our liquid, which is usually water, but this time we're using buttermilk. Oh, yeah. According to historians, the Vikings use something very close to modern buttermilk to make their breads. And what we'll do is start stirring slowly with our spoon, so as not to splash the milk out before this starts to come together.

And we will keep stirring until we formed what we

call in the business a shaggy dough. And you could go a little farther if you want, but once I get to this point, I like to clean off my primitive wooden spoon and switch to my even more primitive fingertips. And we will basically pinch, squeeze, and press this dough until it all comes together and all the flour has been incorporated and the sides of our primitive wooden bowl are clean.

And once we do eventually get to this point, we will transfer it onto