How to Make Fresh Milled Homemade Bread

[elkhound]

 

[SLADE]

We mill wheat berries for whole wheat bread every few days.Our own potatoes go into potato bread if we want a white bread.
We use a country living mill for wheat, rye, corn, barley etc etc.
can't eat the store crap.

 

[lilmissy]

We mill wheat berries for whole wheat bread every few days.Our own potatoes go into potato bread if we want a white bread.
We use a country living mill for wheat, rye, corn, barley etc etc.
can't eat the store crap.

I know this is an old thread. But woukd you share your recipes for the bread? Do you use winter or spring berries?

 

[SLADE]

We use hard red spring wheat.
Use any recipe for wheat bread.
We use 3 cups of wheat and 3 cups of all purpose white flour.
2.5 cups warm water
1 Tb dry yeast
1/3 cup molasses
3/4 Tb salt
Don't over knead as it gets heavy and tough.

 

[lilmissy]

Molasses??? Does this taste like Cheesecake Factory brown bread?

 

[Amish Heart]

Sounds like my recipe except I use honey instead of molasses.

 

[Terri9630]

I missed this thread somehow. I use all fresh milled flour, no store bought and just soak the flour for a bit before mixing everything else in. Fresh ground flour takes longer to absorb liquids.

 

[lilmissy]

I missed this thread somehow. I use all fresh milled flour, no store bought and just soak the flour for a bit before mixing everything else in. Fresh ground flour takes longer to absorb liquids.

what kind of berries do you use?
thanks for the tip on soaking it

 

[Terri9630]

what kind of berries do you use?
thanks for the tip on soaking it

Soft white wheat. I don't like the flavor of the red wheat. I just take some of the liquid from the recipe and use it for soaking. There is also a technique where you "cook" half of the flour. Its on the King Arthur Flour website and starts with a T. I'll look it up.

 

[Terri9630]

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2018/03/26/introduction-to-tangzhong
I have not tried this yet but its on the to do list.

 

[lilmissy]

Thanks so much!

 

[Weedygarden]

Fresh ground flour takes longer to absorb liquids.

I have heard something about this and I wonder if grinding your flour a few days in advance would change that, making it quicker to absorb liquids?

 

[SLADE]

There's no need to buy all purpose if you sieve your flour to get out the bran.
For now we buy all purpose as it's available but we can sieve our own.
when you sieve you need more berries as you are removing some volume but end up with much lighter flour.

 

[JustMe]

There's no need to buy all purpose if you sieve your flour to get out the bran.
For now we buy all purpose as it's available but we can sieve our own.
when you sieve you need more berries as you are removing some volume but end up with much lighter flour.

Good point on using a sieve and will try that next time. I'm a bit new to using home ground flour so still in the experimental phase.


I have AP flour and wheat berries and a manual grinder that I finally used a few days ago, just to try it out. But I've not used it exclusively yet. I did make some pizza dough the other night with the AP flour, then remembered the homeground flour and used it to firm up the dough, Worked and tasted great.

Then last night used some of the home ground flour to make gravy with, that also worked just fine.


Some years ago I did use some fresh ground berries/flour mixed about 40/60 with store bought AP to make a loaf of bread, but have not tried doing 100% yet.

 

[Terri9630]

I have heard something about this and I wonder if grinding your flour a few days in advance would change that, making it quicker to absorb liquids?

I don't know how long it would have to sit. I usually grind just what I need.

 

[Neb]

I don't know how long it would have to sit. I usually grind just what I need.

Hah!

I read "kneed".

Ben