To use a healthy flour, you can mill spelt berries fresh so all the germ and bran is intact. The germ contains the B vitamins that a person needs to support basic life functions. Store bought processed flour doesn’t contain the germ because it makes the flour perishable and need refrigeration. See article What’s a Healing Bread about resources for spelt berries and grain mills. Extra milled flour will stay fresh in the freezer. Extra milled flour will stay fresh in the freezer. Denatured flour from the supermarket causes all degenerative diseases and tooth decay.

It is much healthier to eat a cake where the flour was fermented, as in the kokosh recipe. The freshly milled flour has very important vitamins. Eating flour products that weren’t fermented slows digestion because the unfermented flour becomes paste-like in the gut. The healthiest way to to make this cookie is to buy sprouted spelt berries or to sprout (and dehydrate) spelt berries before milling it into flour. If the flour isn’t being fermented in the recipe (like this recipe), then it is best for the flour to be from sprouted grain.

Refined white salt contains anticaking agents like aluminum and is bleached and stripped of all healthy minerals. Use fine gray sea salt or fine pink Himalayan salt.

Brand ‘If You Care’ sells unbleached parchment paper, with Star K kosher certification.