The Family Baker is a business run by Nadine Kerley in Arvada Colorado.
I participated in this annual grain sale for many years when it was organized by Mountain Magic and Nadine recently assumed owernership of the Mountain Magic customer mailing list and offers many of the same products and services.
Nadine is organizing a grain sale right now and if you are local here in Colorado, contact her here for more information about how to order her wonderfully priced organic grains and beans. Orders are due March 6th, 2007
Here is a link to her Home Page – Go Here.
Organic grains should represent the “staff of life” in our daily eating. Jenny Hatch
Please click on these images to get to some of the most economical sources for Organic Grains and Electric Grinders found on the web! I used the Kitchen Mill almost daily for fifteen years before the motor gave out. It is a fabulous, well priced machine for the Home Maker to grind grains fresh daily for all of your baking needs!
Finished Cinnamon Rolls and Bread ready to bake!
Adjustment on the recipe: (I made a double batch of Esthers bread)
Replace one cup of slightly ground brown flax seeds for olive oil, and throw in one cup of fresh ground wheat sprouts in place of one cup of flour.
Bake Cinnamon rolls and bread at 375 for 20 minutes or until a baking thermometer says the inside of the bread is at 170 degrees. Jenny Hatch
I believe The Kitchen Mill is the best priced, most powerful mill on the market. I used it almost daily for fifteen years and it is a great kitchen tool to use daily for freshly grinding grains.
I documented another cooking marathon last week:
Here are some videos, recipes follow:
Overview of the foods created in a three hour cooking marathon.
Ingredients for the pizza pockets
Rolling out the dough for the pizza pockets.
The Children arrive home from school. And yes, at the end of this video Jeff whispers to his dad that he is not thrilled with eating a “whole wheat” hot pocket, made with whole wheat bread. As my pickiest eater, it has been a challenge to get whole foods into Jeff. He loves white flour foods. However, he did eat the pizza pockets. My children somtimes complain about whole foods eating, but when they are hungry enough, they will eat the whole foods, especially if no other junk food is in the house. If I had a Dominos pizza sitting on the table next to the pizza I made when they walked in the door, every single one of them would have snarfed the white flour pizza over my home baked goods. Just like if I had a plate of ding dongs next to some whole wheat spice cookies, they would eat the chemical junk.
Does this mean as a mom that we give up and just buy them the sugar and chemical junk they crave? Nope. As moms we must press on and teach and exhort and challenge them to take good care of their bodies. My life would be much easier if I just purchased all of the foods pre packaged that my family eats. But then I would have to live with a bunch of sugar high fussy mussy kids, and I am not interested in that.
Baking pizza pockets. Also the ingredients for Whole Wheat Lemon Bars. Jenny Hatch
This morning it started to snow again and as of 2PM on a cloudy friday afternoon Jan. 5th 2007, we have about a foot of snow on the ground again. Since this is the children’s last day of vacation, school starts on monday, we are having a quiet day at home, doing laundry, and preparing and organizing for school. I did a large baking of bread this morning, and made a pot of beef noodle soup.
Here are some video clips of my cooking adventures~!
“All grain is ordained for the use of man and of beasts, to be the staff of life, not only for man but for the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, and all wild animals that run or creep on the earth; And these hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.
All grain is good for the food of man; as also the fruit of the vine that which yieldeth fruit, whether in the ground or above the ground– Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain.”
D&C 89:14-17
Esthers Perfect and Precise Whole Wheat Bread: (Double Batch)
Put rack on lowest part of oven
In Kitchen aid mixer bowl:
4 1/2 C Cold Tap Water
1/2 C Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2/3 C Agave Nectar
2 TBS Sea Salt
10 tsp Yeast
Grind 10 C Hard Red Winter Wheat (11% Protein Content works best) in an electric grain mill
Grind 1 Cup Whole Flax Seeds (I used a mix of brown and golden flax seeds for this recipe)
1. Turn Mixer on #1 dial (Set timer for 20 minutes for mixing dough)
Start adding Wheat Flour 1 C at a time until the sides of the bowl are clean. The last cup of flour you may not need. I used about 15 cups of flour for this recipe.
2. Spray counter, knead ball of dough five times
Spray bowl – put in ball, spray plastic wrap and put over dough.
3. Turn on Oven to 170 degrees, put timer on just one min – turn off oven.
4. Put bowl in oven on lowest rack, let rise 20 minutes
5. Take out and knead dough five times.
6. Second rising: Put dough in bowl, cover with plastic wrap, back in oven for 30 more minutes
7. Knead 5 times, cut in half, roll to size of pans with your hands. Put dough in loaf pans, and cover with same plastic wrap. Put pans in lower rack in over, rise 50-65 minutes – try to let it rise 2 ½ to 3 inches above the rim of the pan.
8. Take loaf out of over, remove wrap. Preheat ove to 375. Cook at least 20 minutes or until the center of the loaf is 170 degrees. Use a baking thermometer to test the temp.
All of these steps will give you the absolute best whole wheat bread you have ever eaten!
