I’ve always had a fondness for the sawdust bread that my medieval ancestors from Northern England and Scotland subsisted on. Each week, they would slog through the muck and mud to take their grain to the corrupt miller, who would give them back flour mixed with sawdust in varying amounts, keeping back a bit more of the proper flour for himself (and often ending up in the stocks for his crimes).

A good sawdust bread always reminds me of home, and is so easy to make, that you can do it in your own kitchen or workshop, without the extra expense of a medieval miller cheating you! Follow the simple recipe below, and savour the earthy, woody taste of authentically fake medieval counterfeit bread!