Milling Your Own Flour at Home | The Modern Day Cottage

Three kraft paper bags of organic wheat berries from Azure Standard, including hard red wheat, hard white wheat, and soft white wheat, styled on a white counter with vintage copper pots and wheat stalks.

Milling Your Own Flour

Where to Buy Wheat Berries and Whole Grains: A Slow Living Guide to My Favorite Wheat Sources

Close-up of a grain mill actively grinding flour into a large bowl. The bowl is now filled with fluffy mounds of flour. Warm kitchen tones and copper utensils accent the scene.

Milling Your Own Flour

Homemade Cake and Pastry Flour Using Freshly Milled Flour

Close-up of freshly ground flour pouring from a wooden Mockmill grain mill into a glass bowl on a kitchen counter.

Milling Your Own Flour

Grinding Freshly Milled Wheat Berries for Homemade All-Purpose Flour

Overhead view of a loaf of freshly baked whole wheat bread on a pink-striped cloth napkin. Below it are two floral china plates—one filled with freshly milled whole wheat flour, and the other with whole wheat berries—set atop a vintage lace tablecloth with decorative wheat stalks arranged nearby.

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Bread Flour Blend Using Freshly Milled Wheat Berries

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Milling Your Own Flour

Sifting Fresh Milled Flour: When It Matters Most

A bowl of freshly ground whole wheat flour rests on a digital kitchen scale reading 260 grams. The bowl, featuring a delicate pink floral pattern, is surrounded by whole wheat berries in another bowl, a glass jar, and a wooden cutting board with a scoop and scattered grains. The setup is arranged on a lace and fabric-covered wooden table.

Milling Your Own Flour

Tips for Converting Recipes to Freshly Milled Flour

Three labeled mason jars filled with various grains—Oat Groats, OG Spelt, and OG Rye—sit on a lace doily on a kitchen counter, with a bundle of wheat stalks in front and a kitchen sink in the background.

Milling Your Own Flour

Easy Tips for Storing Wheat Berries: Long and Short Term

A hand extends forward holding hard white wheat berries above a full glass jar. The jar sits on a crocheted tablecloth, and part of the person’s soft pink blouse is visible in the background.

Milling Your Own Flour

What Whole Grains to Use for Milling Flour at Home