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Farm Kitchen:  Who grinds their own flour?  |
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JudyT
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Judy
Southwest
Wisconsin
USA
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 Posted - May 18 2010 : 12:08:55 PM
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I'm not sure if this topic has been touched on. I couldn't find anything when I did a search. We grind our own flour and I'm looking for a good recipe for cinnamon rolls. The one I have just isn't working right. If anyone has a recipe for cinnamon rolls made with fresh ground wheat flour I would love to have it.
Thanks,
Judy
Judy~Farmgirl #599
I was born a city girl, but I'm a "farmgirl" at heart, sharing my life at,
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13641 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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carishumaker
Farmgirl at Heart
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cari
seabeck
wa
USA
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Posted - May 18 2010 : 1:02:58 PM
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I do!!! I have a great recipe from my grandma, let me try to find it.
1 cup warm water
3 tsp yeast
1/4 c honey or agave
2 TBL butter
mix and let sit a few minutes.
2.5 cups (or so) WW flour
1 cup of other grain/seed (I use ground flax, oat bran, wheat germ . . . whatever I have on hand) This makes it heartier.
1/4 turbinado or sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
Knead this up to a nice semi-sticky dough. Let rise. Prepare cinnamon roll pan: mix 1/3 cup butter, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 TBL corn syrup in a 8X13 pan, put in oven to melt the butter but don't let it burn, take out and spread pecan halves around the pan.
When the dough is ready, punch down and roll out to a big rectangle, spread a good bunch of butter all over the rectangle, sprinkle with lots and lots of cinnamon and sugar. Roll up tightly. Cut roll in to 1 inch slices, place rolls in pan on top of pecans. Cover and let rise till doubled. Bake in a 375 deg oven for 25 minutes or so. Immediately invert onto cookie sheet or platter. Let pan remain a minute so caramel can drizzle over rolls.
* These are pretty hearty rolls, like most WW flour recipes. To lighten up you can add some gluten or white flour when you are making the dough. Glueten does a lot to lighten them up.
These are YUMMMMMMMMY! |
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JudyT
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Judy
Southwest
Wisconsin
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - May 18 2010 : 1:16:24 PM
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Thank you so much for sharing it Cari!!!! I can't wait to try it.
CeeJay, we roll our own oats too. We make oatmeal and it's wonderful, as well as putting it in our bread.
Judy~Farmgirl #599
I was born a city girl, but I'm a "farmgirl" at heart, sharing my life at,
http://dailyyarnsnmore.com
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - May 18 2010 : 8:24:03 PM
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Thanks for the recipe. We grind our own flour too. I'll give this a try.
"Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other art follows. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
Daniel Webster
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - May 18 2010 : 9:13:50 PM
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I grind my flour too..the recipe looks great..I will be trying it too..thanks!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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sw80689
True Blue Farmgirl
207 Posts
Sharon
Papillion
Nebraska
USA
207 Posts |
Posted - May 18 2010 : 9:56:55 PM
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Thanks for sharing your Grandma's recipe:) Sounds delicious, can't wait to try it. My sons LOVE cin. rolls!
Smiles,
Sharon
Farmgirl Sister #1393
*We are all angels with one wing, the only way to fly, therefore is to embrace one another* |
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Heather B
True Blue Farmgirl
562 Posts
Heather
Longmont
Colorado
USA
562 Posts |
Posted - May 19 2010 : 05:02:53 AM
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I grind my own flour and appreciate the shared recipe! Thanks
heather
http://homesteadincity.blogspot.com/
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sherrye
True Blue Farmgirl
3775 Posts
sherry
bend in the high desert
oregon
USA
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Posted - May 19 2010 : 06:58:33 AM
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i too grind my flour. i use a hobart coffee grinder. we inherited it when papas mama died. used for flour for many years. she is tall and yellow and looks awesome on my counter. i use a whole wheat berry from azure farms. one is white hard wheat and one is red hard wheat. i would love to know what types of wheat others grind. i also am always looking for recipes. i combine the two for bread. they are high in gluten. where do you all buy your berries? where do you store your flour and whole wheat. i use my freezer. happy days sherrye
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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Nigella
True Blue Farmgirl
386 Posts
Nigella
Chimacum
WA
USA
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Posted - May 19 2010 : 10:33:38 AM
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I grind whole wheat flour and I made Julia Child's pita breads with it. Oh my goodness! They turned out so tasty! and they pocketed perfectly :) a few came out flat, but I make pita chips out of those for my honey's lunchbox, and last night I used a couple to make little personal pizzas to go with our soup. My husbands a very picky eater but he loves his homemade pitas!
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
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Edited by - Nigella on May 19 2010 10:34:13 AM |
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JudyT
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Judy
Southwest
Wisconsin
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - May 19 2010 : 12:26:14 PM
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Hi Sherrye, we buy our wheat in Minnesota where my daughter lives. We store it in containers in the basement, but fill glass jars with them to sit on our counter for easier use. We use soft white, hard red, rye and oats. We roll our own oats for cooking, makes the best oatmeal.
Nigella, I would love to have the recipe for the pita bread. Care to share it?
Judy~Farmgirl Sister #599
I was born a city girl, but I'm a "farmgirl" at heart, sharing my life at...http://dailyyarnsnmore.com
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JudyT
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Judy
Southwest
Wisconsin
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - May 19 2010 : 1:38:10 PM
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I made the cinnamon roll recipe that Cari shared with us and they turned out great. My husband can't stop eating them. Thanks Cari for sharing your recipe.
Judy~Farmgirl Sister #599
I was born a city girl, but I'm a "farmgirl" at heart, sharing my life at...http://dailyyarnsnmore.com
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Ms.Lilly
True Blue Farmgirl
826 Posts
Lillian
Scotts Mills
OR
USA
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Posted - May 19 2010 : 3:06:17 PM
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I too grind my own flour. Our berries are purchased from Bob'b Red Mill here in Oregon. You name it I have probably ground it. Main staples kept on hand are Red Hard Wheat, Hard White Wheat, Soft White Wheat, Kamut, Cornmeal, and Barley. Those are always ground and kept in the freezer. Other things I have ground are Black Beans, Rye, 10 grain "cereal", and Buckwheat. Also Oat flour is made by putting oats in the blender and giving it a whirl, it is always on hand here too. I find that I play around alot with recipes by changing part of the whole wheat flour for another kind for example if a recipe calls for 2 cups whole wheat then I'll add 1 cup whole wheat and 1 cup kamut flour. Alot of times I will also substitute the white flour called for in cookies for Soft white wheat flour and no one will even notice the difference.
On one of my trips to Bob's I found a bag of split pea flour. I did buy this and it is green. Even though I havent found the right thing to make with it yet, I am thinking it will be a fun flour to play with! Who knows I may be grinding up split peas next!
Lillian
Oh by the way thanks for the recipe- I will be trying it this weekend. |
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Rivergirl_2007
True Blue Farmgirl
332 Posts
Shirley
Karnak
IL
USA
332 Posts |
Posted - May 21 2010 : 10:53:36 AM
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| Wow - I just posted a query and should have looked further in the chat room. I just received my mill and am so excited to use it. The only thing I have been able to find out was that soft white was best used for pastry. I belong to a group of ladies that call themselves the Grateful Bread and they use mostly Hard Red for bread. Thank you for sharing your cinnamon roll recipe. I will be trying that one right away. |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - May 21 2010 : 12:55:29 PM
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I get my Hard Red Wheat directly from a farmer. We barter. Wheat for eggs, forever. I keep the wheat berries in a big container in the basement but after it's ground, it goes in the freezer.
"Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other art follows. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."
Daniel Webster
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carishumaker
Farmgirl at Heart
9 Posts
cari
seabeck
wa
USA
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Posted - May 21 2010 : 5:52:59 PM
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nouveau_farmchick
True Blue Farmgirl
173 Posts
Paris
Sequim
Wa
USA
173 Posts |
Posted - May 27 2010 : 06:18:37 AM
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I have a lovely grain grinder and want to do more than just flour. I get very confused when trying to learn the "grain grinding language". For instance: I'd like to make my own Steel cut Oats.... also known as Irish Oats or pinhead oat...So I get some whole grain oats, and just crack them into smaller pieces. Are they then called groats?
If I grind them finer, are they then oatmeal that I can use for something like oatmeal cookies, or hot oatmeal cereal? And how about whole organic corn, I wonder what else I can do with it besides making cornmeal? I have several books on the grain subjust, put they are helping me. Any suggestions on a good book to help me understand all of this?
Perhaps it's just a jump in and do more, learning experience?
God Bless Farmers
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - May 27 2010 : 09:41:03 AM
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I have a Whisper Mill and grind my own wheat. I make bread and anything else with the flour. I do need a new grinder because the bowl is about to fall apart. But it will have to wait awhile.
Also have a DLX and it has an attachment for flaking oats which I use alot too. This makes them just like flaked oatmeal. If I put it in the grinder it would be oat flour. Steel cut is the same thing as flaked. My grinder and flaker both have steel cutting wheels. I think if you just crack the oat groats they are them just cracked oats, like cracked wheat.
I am growing Hickory King corn and will let it dry so I can grind it for grits and corn meal. My grinder has different stages of grinding. real fine or courser. For the grits I'll use the course setting and for meal I'll grind it finer.
I have a book all about grains. It's called Grains of Truth by Donna G. Spann. It's all about every grain and what it's used for and what it's good for and nutritional value and also history of each grain. Very interesting and informative.
Kris
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Rivergirl_2007
True Blue Farmgirl
332 Posts
Shirley
Karnak
IL
USA
332 Posts |
Posted - May 27 2010 : 2:00:06 PM
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I have a Wonder Mill. I just received it (Mother's Day) and have not used it much yet. It will mill corn, beans and wheat, etc., but I tried corn on it at a course grind and ended up with a corn flour on the gritty side - not really a corn meal.
Thanks for the book info. That may be what I am looking for. |
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nelliesue17
Farmgirl in Training
37 Posts
Nellie
PA
USA
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Posted - May 27 2010 : 4:01:25 PM
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Help a sister out. This is something that I have wanted to try. What type of grinder do I need?
Nellie Sue
Life is a bowl of beautiful bright berries |
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nouveau_farmchick
True Blue Farmgirl
173 Posts
Paris
Sequim
Wa
USA
173 Posts |
Posted - May 27 2010 : 4:07:00 PM
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Oh Thank YOU Kris,
that helps a lot already!
God Bless Farmers
Sister #167 |
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fiddlegirl89
True Blue Farmgirl
232 Posts
Kayla
Dunnville
KY
USA
232 Posts |
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JudyT
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Judy
Southwest
Wisconsin
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - May 27 2010 : 5:42:50 PM
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We burned out two grinders, a Whisper Mill and a Nutrimill. Now we have a Retsel and love it. The only problem with this company is that they are soooooooooo slow in getting the grinder to you. They are more expensive tho, but worth it.
We are trying that this year to grow our own corn Kristin. I hope it works, not sure what kind we planted tho.
Judy~Farmgirl Sister #599
I was born a city girl, but I'm a "farmgirl" at heart, sharing my life at...http://dailyyarnsnmore.com
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nouveau_farmchick
True Blue Farmgirl
173 Posts
Paris
Sequim
Wa
USA
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Posted - May 28 2010 : 05:21:27 AM
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JudyT do you need a special attachment to make rolled oatmeal? I have a Diamant grain grinder.
Do you know how to make cream of wheat?
God Bless Farmers
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JudyT
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Judy
Southwest
Wisconsin
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - May 28 2010 : 06:01:07 AM
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We do have an attachment for the rolled oats, it goes on our Bosch mixer. We do make cream of wheat and this is how we do it.
Take about 1/4 cup of wheat berries (soft white works the best, hard white is okay, it all depends on the wheat how it turns out)
Roll the berries with the roller.
Take the rolled wheat and add about (5) 1/4 cups of water or 1 1/4 cups of water and boil 2 minutes and let sit for 4 minutes.
You can make as much or as little as you want. For example: if you take 1 cup wheat berries and roll them, times the water by five, so you would add 5 cups of water to the 1 cup of wheat. What ever measuring cup we use for the wheat we use the same cup for the water, we just times it by five.
I hope this isn't too confusing. We use our roller a lot. I'm sure there are rollers you can buy for rolling oats out there. Because we had a Bosh mixer we just bought the roller attachment.
Judy~Farmgirl Sister #599
I was born a city girl, but I'm a "farmgirl" at heart, sharing my life at...http://dailyyarnsnmore.com
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nouveau_farmchick
True Blue Farmgirl
173 Posts
Paris
Sequim
Wa
USA
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Posted - May 31 2010 : 06:21:16 AM
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Thank you again Judy! I have a lovely Diamant grain grinder.
God Bless Farmers
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