Re: Is sprouted flour supposed to be gritty?

[Guest guest]

I've solved the baking issue by sifting the flour to remove the larger

particles. I used some to make cream of wheat and it's wonderful, but I ended up

with 1/3 flour and 2/3 cereal. I really hope I'm doing something wrong here that

can be corrected, this is a whole lot of work for such a small return of flour

:s. (my family is not too big on the soaked grain recipes, I'm pretty used to it

but hubby and kids, no way, so sprouted flour seems like the best option. It's

too expensive to buy any real quantity of it however so I have to figure out how

to get this right! A friend of mine has a Nutrimill, maybe I'll try running a

batch through that and see if it grinds it finer than my FGM.

>

> I'm having some difficulty baking with my flour and I think it's because of

the texture.

[Guest guest]

Could you grind the flour more than once. I have been known to do that.

Allyn

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Subject: Re: Is sprouted flour supposed to be gritty?

I've solved the baking issue by sifting the flour to remove the larger

particles. I used some to make cream of wheat and it's wonderful, but I

ended up with 1/3 flour and 2/3 cereal. I really hope I'm doing something

wrong here that can be corrected, this is a whole lot of work for such a

small return of flour :s. (my family is not too big on the soaked grain

recipes, I'm pretty used to it but hubby and kids, no way, so sprouted flour

seems like the best option. It's too expensive to buy any real quantity of

it however so I have to figure out how to get this right! A friend of mine

has a Nutrimill, maybe I'll try running a batch through that and see if it

grinds it finer than my FGM.

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wrote:

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> I'm having some difficulty baking with my flour and I think it's because

of the texture.

[Guest guest]

I will try that, I really don't need this much cream of wheat LOL

>

> Could you grind the flour more than once. I have been known to do that.

>

> Allyn

[Guest guest]

I have two different mills and both can make very light and powdery flour and

courser grinds as well. Is it not possible to adjust your mill to make finer

flour?

One of my mills does a good job grinding the bran (synthetic stone burrs), the

other not so much (steel burrs)--it passes the brans through is large flakes. I

just got this mill and I think the flour is better for baking as the flaked bran

seems to interfere less than the finely ground brand.

Cheers,

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> > Could you grind the flour more than once. I have been known to do that.

> >

> > Allyn

>

[Guest guest]

I have it on the finest setting already. Bran comes out in flakes when using

unsprouted grains, and I have no problem with that, but the sprouted grain comes

out in hard little chunks instead of flakes.

>

> I have two different mills and both can make very light and powdery flour and

courser grinds as well. Is it not possible to adjust your mill to make finer

flour?

[Guest guest]

Thank you for the input, putting the flour through a second time gave me

beautiful fine flour! I don't know why I didn't think of that, I guess since

unsprouted grains always grind fine on the first pass it didn't occur to me that

the sprouted grain would be any different! Live and learn I guess.

I have a lot to relearn with NT. I always seem to jump into things with

everything I've got, get burned out, and end up giving up! If it's something

important, after going back and forth a bit it eventually sticks. Now here I am

almost 7 years after finding WAPF and just now feeling like I can make this work

in the long run!

And as it happened, we've moved recently and now I access to all kinds of things

I couldn't find before (except raw milk, sigh) and I'm over the " have to have

some of everything that's good for you " part and focusing on making the best

choices of what I can find locally (which is actually quite a wonderful

selection now). While I do plan on getting our CLO from Radiant Life, there are

some decent brands here that I can use too if need be (which would be better,

Carlson or Garden of Life? Blue Ice is available here too but is simply not in

our budget.)

Anyway, thanks again for the help