Grinding Flour at Home and 6 Fresh Flour Baking Tips
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Grinding my own flour at home makes me feel like a real pioneer woman. However, the first few weeks of baking with my fresh flour made me feel more than a little frustrated with dense breads and spread out pancake thin cookies. I've been grinding my own flour for almost two years now and I've learned some tips to save you time and help you bake fabulous goodies. Including why to grind flour at home, which kind of wheat is best for what kind of baking, and 6 tips for baking with fresh flour, because let me tell you, it ain't the same as regular store flour.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to pioneering today with me Melissa K Norris where I inspire your faith and your pioneer roots. |
| 0:06.2 | I show you how to grow your own food, heirloom gardening, how to preserve your food at home and modern homesteading. |
| 0:14.0 | Tune in every other Friday as I share proven strategies |
| 0:18.0 | that anyone can do to live the pioneer lifestyle. |
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| 0:29.4 | Hey guys I am really excited to talk with you today about grinding your own |
| 0:36.2 | flower at home and using fresh ground flower in your baking. We started a new |
| 0:42.4 | feature on the pioneering today podcast. in your gotten a lot of questions in regard to grinding your own flour, picking which kind of |
| 0:55.6 | flour to use, and then how to use freshly ground flour when you're baking, because it is a little |
| 1:01.6 | bit different. |
| 1:02.8 | So today's episode is actually going to be all about answering those questions. |
| 1:07.7 | So you could kind of say today's podcast episode is an entire podcast on the Reader Question of the Week. |
| 1:14.3 | So I'm really excited to delve into this |
| 1:16.3 | because it's something that I started doing almost two years ago |
| 1:20.3 | and I absolutely love. |
| 1:21.7 | So today we're gonna to be getting into grinding your own flower at home. |
| 1:26.9 | So those of you might wonder, why would you want to grind your own flower at home? |
| 1:30.8 | Well, there's several reasons, most of importantly for me is the |
| 1:35.0 | health benefits of grinding your own flower at home. So the flower that you get |
| 1:39.3 | in this store a wheatberry has three parts to it. And so when I say wheatberry, it's not a |
| 1:46.2 | berry like a fruit berry that you eat. It's actually like a hard little kernel, but |
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