Fresh milled einkorn chocolate chip cookies have changed my life. I’ve always been a chocolate chip cookie snob. But back in the day, that meant following the Nestle Tollhouse recipe to a T, including using refined, bleached all-purpose flour, refined white sugar, margarine sticks for “butter,” and Nestle chips. Let’s just say, things have changed […]
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Fresh milled sourdough sandwich bread The holy grail of bread baking? Fresh flour sourdough. For years after I made the switch to fresh milled flour, I assumed I just wasn’t going to make good sourdough bread again. I was cranking out beautiful commercial yeast loaves. But whenever I attempted sourdough bread with fresh flour, I
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My biggest haters are over grain mills. When I started posting on Instagram, I never would have imagined that my biggest haters would be over the fact that they can’t afford a grain mill. And I get it. Things are tight right now. But when I invested in my grain mill, I knew it was
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Purchasing wheat berries can be surprisingly difficult. When I started milling my own flour I was very confused. I had such a hard time finding reputable wheat berries that I purchased sketchy bags of grains from e-bay. Whoops. Thankfully, you’re not doomed to the fate of random wheat berries from e-bay. (Is that website even
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The day my first flour mill arrived I was overwhelmed. But the truth is, I was overwhelmed even before my mill arrived. And if you’re in the same boat figuring out how to choose a flour mill, I’m here to simplify it for you. After over a decade of milling my own flour and either
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Want to bake with kamut? Or maybe you call it khorasan? Yes, you can bake amazing things with the grain with the funny names, no matter what you call it.
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Sourdough was my original love, before fresh milled flour entered the picture. Once I started using my grain mill on a daily basis, sourdough fell of my radar for a while. I was so captivated by wheat berries, mills, fresh flour, and fresh milled bread, that my sourdough starter became neglected. A coincidence? Maybe.
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Muffins were one of the first “successful” things I made with fresh milled flour. With blueberry muffins always being a hit around here, I was determined to make fresh milled flour blueberry muffins right off the bat. Granted, I didn’t open up my grain mill and make good muffins right away, but after a few
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When I first started out with fresh milled flour, I wanted to know the cost of milling my own flour. But I was virtually alone in the fresh flour world and couldn’t find the numbers, so I pulled them together myself.
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There are a lot of nuances of fresh flour that make it very different to bake with than commercial flour. Which is good. It should be different. But often the biggest hurdle for a newbie is figuring out how to use a grain mill correctly.
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