Home Milling
Converting Your Favourite Recipes to Fresh-Milled Flour
Old recipes need adjusting for fresh-milled flour. How much more water, how much less yeast and oil, plus two worked South African examples.
How to Start a Sourdough Starter With Fresh-Milled Flour
A day-by-day method for a sourdough starter made from home-milled rye or wholewheat, with feeding ratios, South African kitchen temperatures and fixes for the day-4 stall.
The Everyday Fresh-Milled Sandwich Loaf That Isn’t a Brick
A 100% freshly milled wholewheat tin loaf that is genuinely soft, made with yeast in about four hours. The scald is what stops it being a brick.
Your First Loaf With Fresh-Milled Flour: The 70/30 Recipe
Start with 70% freshly milled whole grain and 30% white bread flour. The full recipe, timings, what the dough should feel like at each stage, and how to fix the usual failures.
Where to Buy Grains for Home Milling in South Africa
Whole grain, not flour — here's where to buy wheat, maize and specialty grains in bulk for home milling in South Africa, with suppliers that deliver nationwide.
