The spelt

Spelt/Dinkel and Dicoccum/Emmer flours have already been employed in each type of bakery product and pasta production. MOLINO SIMA, using different grinding techniques, offers to the clients an ample choice range, able to satisfy every necessity and every type of manufacturing. The mill employs a decortications system, exclusively dedicated to organic cereals, from the spelt decortications and its subsequent milling, we obtain high quality flours, rich in fibres, proteins, with a law calorie rate.

Botanically spelt is a high nutritive cereal. It distinguishes itself from the other types of wheat because of the seed capsule which tents to stick to the grain so that it has to be decorticated before it is used. It was considered “sacred” for the ancient Italian inhabitant: Latin, Umbrian, and Sabine.

The flat spelt made with this cereal (the “Spelta”) was the ritual wedding dish in the Roman wedding. It grows on poor soils, it does not need many treatments, it resists to law temperature and it produces a rustic grain which can be used in innumerable ways after it has been wisely transformed in flour.