Flour Power: A Guide To Modern Home Grain Milling - Softcover

Marleeta F. Basey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970540116 ISBN 13: 9780970540119

Publisher: Jermar Press, 2009

Synopsis

The only book written on modern home grain milling. This book manages to present a technical topic in a fascinating and entertaining way. Unusually detailed and littered with historical tidbits. Includes mill selection criteria, an education on bread wheats, secrets for making deliciously light whole meal breads, and purchasing contacts for dozens of grain mills, plus oat rollers and bread wheats.

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About the Author

The author, who has a B.A. from Stanford University, has been milling flour and making 100-percent whole meal bread for over 25 years. In the beginning, her bread was heavy, earthy and toothsome. After many trials, many errors and much research (including a review of cook books from the early 1900's), she learned how a few "secret" ingredients could turn her whole meal bombs into fluffy, light, flavorful loaves–without adding white flour or commercial gluten. The most secret of ingredients, it turned out, was the wheat that she milled into flour.

For many years the author lived, worked and traveled abroad (Paris, Vienna, Saigon, Beijing and more). She did a solo six-week motorcycle trip in the former Yugoslavia, lived in San Francisco, wrote six failed mystery novels and crocheted a large bedspread using skinny thread. She has worked at many jobs, including contract writer, advertising manager, technical editor, solar and life insurance salesperson and secretary. These experiences have contributed humor, richness and depth to her writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jermar Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970540116
• ISBN 13: 9780970540119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288