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The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book: Learn Complete Milling and Baking Techniques, Includes 100 Recipes Updated for Today's Bakers

by Sue Becker

A practical guide to milling and baking at home

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A practical guide to milling and baking at home

Sue Becker’s guide brings home flour milling together with the baking skills needed to use freshly milled grains. It covers grain history and anatomy, equipment, mixing techniques, and the roles of gluten and moisture, alongside profiles of grains including barley, rye, kamut, buckwheat, and almond flour. The 100 recipes range from breads, rolls, and muffins to cookies and pastries, with options described as gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan. The book also discusses differences between commercially milled and home-milled flour, framing the subject around both the process of making flour and its uses in everyday baking.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Home bakers interested in milling flour themselves
  • Cooks looking for recipes using freshly milled grains
  • Readers seeking gluten-free, dairy-free, or vegan baking options

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Home flour millingWhole grains and grain anatomyBaking techniquesRecipe adaptations and dietary options

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Book overview

How to create flour at home.

The many benefits of home flour milling include taste and flavor and the appeal of making a healthy food that tastes good and is seriously nutritous. Home ground flour milling can also save countless dollars just in the cost of bread alone, especially for those with special dietary needs and restrictions, and improved health leads to reduced medical costs.

This comprehensive how-to details the whole process behind home flour milling with features such as:

  • The history of whole grains and grain anatomy
  • Benefits of commercially milled flour vs home milled flour
  • Tools and equipment for home flour milling
  • Baking basics including mixing methods and techniques -- the importance of gluten and moisture
  • Going with the grains -- a thorough description of grains such as barley, rye, kamut and buckwheat
  • Nut flours such as almond
  • Baking with freshly milled grains.

There are also 100 recipes for tasty quick breads, rolls and buns, muffins, pancakes, coffee cakes, biscuit and scones, cookies, brownies and pastries, plus others that are gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan.

The Home Ground Flour Book is ideal for anyone who wants to create their own flours.

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