The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book – Second Edition by Sue Becker
From Wheat Berries to Fresh-Milled Flour
You bought a grain mill because you wanted fresh flour. Now comes the best part: learning what to make with it.
The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book, Second Edition by Sue Becker is a practical guide to home grain milling and baking with freshly milled flour. It combines the fundamentals of grains and milling with practical baking techniques and 100 recipes to help you put your fresh flour to work.
Whether you're researching your first grain mill, waiting for your new mill to arrive, or already baking with fresh-milled flour, this book gives you the knowledge, techniques and recipes to explore what home milling can bring to your kitchen.
What's New in the Second Edition?
Updated for today's home millers and bakers, the Second Edition includes 100 recipes, new and updated recipes, a new sourdough section and an easy no-knead bread recipe. Recipes now include both volume measurements and metric weights, so you can work with familiar cups or weigh ingredients in grams for greater precision.
New to Fresh-Milled Flour? Start Here.
Bringing home a grain mill opens up a whole new world of baking – and plenty of questions.
Which wheat berries should you use? What about spelt, rye and other grains? How fine should you mill? And why doesn't freshly milled flour always behave exactly like conventional store-bought flour?
Sue Becker takes you beyond simply owning a mill. She introduces you to whole grains, home milling and the practical side of baking with fresh flour, helping you understand what comes out of your mill and how to use it.
That makes the book especially useful when you're just starting your fresh-milled flour journey: instead of having a new grain mill sitting on the counter and wondering what to do next, you have a practical resource ready to use alongside it.
Already Milling? There's Plenty to Explore.
This isn't only a beginner's book. If fresh-milled flour is already part of your kitchen, you'll find information about grains, milling and baking techniques, along with 100 recipes for putting freshly milled flour to work in different ways.
The updated Second Edition adds new recipes and additional content, including a new sourdough section and an easy no-knead bread recipe.
That's especially relevant for today's fresh-milled flour community, where home milling and sourdough increasingly go hand in hand. If you're experimenting with different grains, whole-grain breads or fresh-milled sourdough, the new edition gives you even more to explore.
More Than a Collection of Recipes
One of the most useful things about this book is that it doesn't begin and end with recipes.
It helps you understand the journey from whole grain to fresh flour to finished food. You'll learn about grains and home milling before putting that knowledge into practice in the kitchen.
That makes it a useful reference to keep near your grain mill – something you can return to when trying a different grain, looking for your next recipe or simply learning more about baking with freshly milled flour.
A Great Companion for Your Home Grain Mill
Whether you use a hawos, Mockmill, KoMo, NutriMill, WonderMill or another home grain mill, sooner or later the same question comes up:
What can I make with all this wonderful fresh flour?
This book helps answer that question.
It bridges the gap between buying a grain mill and becoming confident using it – from choosing grains and milling fresh flour to baking bread, exploring sourdough and making freshly milled flour part of everyday life.
Buying a New Grain Mill? Start with the Book Beside It.
If you're choosing your first grain mill – or have just brought one home – this book is an ideal companion for getting started. Learn about grains, home milling and baking with fresh flour, then put that knowledge into practice with 100 recipes. And it isn't something you'll outgrow: as you gain experience, you can keep coming back to it for different grains, new recipes, whole-grain baking and sourdough.
Still looking for the right mill? Explore our grain mills, including traditional European mills from hawos and Schnitzer. Whether you're just getting started or upgrading your current setup, the right grain mill and a good guide make a great foundation for your fresh-milled flour journey.
What's Inside?
- Home grain milling fundamentals
- Information about whole grains and different grain varieties
- Practical milling techniques
- Guidance for baking with freshly milled flour
- 100 recipes
- New and updated recipes in the Second Edition
- A new sourdough section
- An easy no-knead bread recipe
- Volume measurements plus metric weights for the recipes
- Ideas for making fresh-milled flour part of your everyday kitchen
For Every Stage of Your Fresh-Milled Flour Journey
Thinking about buying your first grain mill? This book is a great place to start. It helps you understand whole grains, home milling and what you can actually make once fresh flour becomes part of your kitchen.
Just bought a grain mill and ready to start milling and baking? You'll find practical guidance and recipes to help you turn wheat berries and other whole grains into fresh flour – and fresh flour into food you can enjoy at home.
Already an experienced home miller or baker? There's plenty here for you too. Explore different grains, expand your whole-grain baking, try new recipes and dive into the updated Second Edition's additional sourdough content.
Whether you're choosing your first grain mill, learning to use one, or have been milling and baking for years, The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book is designed to help you get more from whole grains and freshly milled flour.
Book Details
| Title | The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book |
| Subtitle | Learn Complete Milling and Baking Techniques, Includes 100 Delicious Recipes |
| Author | Sue Becker |
| Edition | Second Edition |
| ISBN | 978-0-7788-0534-2 |
| Language | English |
| Format | Paperback |
| Condition | New |
