I'm craving pizza now, homemade pizza always creates this special feeling inside me, and it tastes even better than the ones in restaurants! I haven't made pizza using spelt flower (yet), but I'll have to try it. :) How about that pizza sauce, how long can you store it in the fridge?
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I'm strongly recommend spelt flour for everything, it's great! For pizza is especially good.
I don't store these sauces in the fridge. I have a special storage room next to the kitchen which is for food only. This is very common in Eastern Europe. This room is full of jars containing jam, pickles and all kind of homemade sauces made by me :) So if you do it right, you can store it in your kitchen cupboard if the jar is not open. After it is opened, must be stored in the fridge.
Hey, there are some houses with those storage rooms here in Finland too, mostly in older houses, though! I'd love to see all those jams and sauces you have there, it must be quite a collection! It makes sense to keep the sauce in the cupboard before opening it, now I feel a bit dumb for asking it, haha! Thanks for the answer anyway! :)
Don't feel dumb for asking :) Each country has its own habits. If you are building your own house, you can make a storage room just for food. Here in Romania, apartment buildings are built with this storage room for many years with a very good reason. I don't know how much you know about Romania or any other Eastern European country, but during communist time, there has been food shortages and people were cooking, baking and preparing food for rainy days and these storage rooms were needed. Stores were almost empty all the time, you got 10 eggs, 1 kg sugar, 1 kg flour, 1 L oil , 1 kg pork, 1 kg chicken a month, half kg bread per person. So life was tough! We've learned to prepare everything from scratch and use what we could get staying in line for hours, pushing, shoving etc. We made jams and zakusca during summer so we can have them during winter. I was a kid but still remember those ugly times :)
Looking at the past can bring some tough memories to handle, but there's also a lot to learn from those times. Like you mentioned, everything was prepared from the scratch, and people definitely were using every bit of food they got in hand. Nowadays people are buying a lot of heavily processed food, since it's "easier", and the amount of food waste is really shocking! It's quite depressing to watch.
By the way, I had to google what zakusca is, and it looks and seems really delicious! 😋