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Last year I decided that it was silly to buy flour when I had so much wheat in storage. I decided to start making and using my own flour. However, hand grinding it was just too inconvenient to do on a regular basis (unless I ever have to do it).
So I bought an electric mill, and have been making all of our bread ever since.
For those of you who don't know how easy and convenient it can be, here are a few pictures to encourage you. Vitamin E and other nutrients quickly oxidize out of flour, so if you grind your own wheat as needed, you get all the available nutrients.
This is a picture of my mill and the matching canister for storing flour.
When I am ready to make flour, I replace the canister's lid with the mill's lid, open the foldout spout, and insert it into the side of the mill.
Turn on the machine, add your wheat, and that's all there is to it. The mill grinds the flour and deposits it directly into the cannister.
I use hard winter white almost exclusively for my bread. The recipe I use makes soft, fluffy loaves that stay fresh for days when stored in a gallon zip lock.
Another way I use my wheat berries is as substitute for rice in any meat or chicken recipe calling for rice.
I put wheat berries in my blender and grind them to the desired consistency. A coarse grind makes a nutty, chewy product.
If I want a light, fluffy, couscous-like product, I put the wheat berries in the blender and blend on "liquify" until they are finely ground.
Here is a picture of a dish using the chewy version.
DH prefers the "couscous" version.
So I bought an electric mill, and have been making all of our bread ever since.
For those of you who don't know how easy and convenient it can be, here are a few pictures to encourage you. Vitamin E and other nutrients quickly oxidize out of flour, so if you grind your own wheat as needed, you get all the available nutrients.
When I am ready to make flour, I replace the canister's lid with the mill's lid, open the foldout spout, and insert it into the side of the mill.
I use hard winter white almost exclusively for my bread. The recipe I use makes soft, fluffy loaves that stay fresh for days when stored in a gallon zip lock.
Another way I use my wheat berries is as substitute for rice in any meat or chicken recipe calling for rice.
I put wheat berries in my blender and grind them to the desired consistency. A coarse grind makes a nutty, chewy product.
If I want a light, fluffy, couscous-like product, I put the wheat berries in the blender and blend on "liquify" until they are finely ground.
Here is a picture of a dish using the chewy version.
DH prefers the "couscous" version.