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Flashback Friday!
The Country Living Grain Mill has been around awhile, and we thought you’d enjoy a photo from our archives. Flash back to 1981 and here is Jack Jenkins, designer of the mill, featured in an article which compared the output of two electric mills to the hand-powered Country Living Grain Mill. It was no contest! In…
Read MoreLight as a Feather Whole Wheat Rolls
Whole Wheat Rolls 1 ½ cups lukewarm water 1 ½ T dry yeast 4 cups finely-ground whole wheat flour (approx.) 4 T sugar 1 egg 5 T veg. oil 1 ¼ tsp salt Bread Machine Method: Put all ingredients into bread machine and set to “dough” cycle. When dough is mixed and raised, punch down,…
Read MoreGreat news for gluten sensitivity!
Protein—some proteins are difficult for humans to digest such as the gliadin proteins that make up the gluten molecules in wheat products. These are also the proteins that cause an immune response in people with Celiac Disease. Research is showing that the fungal and bacterial microbes in sourdough degrade gluten into smaller peptides, including these…
Read MoreIntroducing the Peanut Butter+ Accessory for your Country Living Grain Mill
Grain Mill Peanut Butter+Plus Accessory Peanut Butter+Plus Accessory What can I grind with the Peanut Butter+ Accessory? We’ve had the opportunity to test a few different nuts and beans and here are our findings thus far: Cashews – Because of their size, cashews need to be broken up so that they will feed into the…
Read MoreRedefining Bread
Bread in America seems to be following in the footsteps of the bright orange, floppy slab of “food” that we call American cheese. This “cheese” looks and feels to be made more from plastic than actual cheese. And so it is with our pre-packaged bread – it contains many unnecessary ingredients and fillers. Here’s an excerpt…
Read MoreAmericans Ate Three Billion of These Last Year
What about making it good for you as well? Here’s a Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe that will add nutrition and fantastic flavor to your Friday night dinner. Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe 5 cups freshly ground whole wheat flour (A combination of hard red wheat and soft white wheat is great.) 1 1/2 tablespoons honey or 2…
Read MoreWheat Berries – Nuggets of Nutrition
Anatomy of a Grain To begin, here’s a quick lesson on what’s inside a wheat berry: Inside a Wheat Berry White bread products contain refined flour, which means the bran and germ are stripped away, and just the endosperm is used for the flour. Let’s take a look at what you are missing when you…
Read MoreThe Grain Gathering
In an effort to learn more about the value of whole wheat, some of the staff here at Country Living Productions were fortunate to spend a weekend on beautiful Whidbey Island in Washington State attending a two-day conference that was geared toward baking with 100% whole wheat. The Grain Gathering, as it’s called, is sponsored…
Read MoreThe Best Biscuits Ever
Dear staff at Country Living, My husband and I ordered the Country Living Grain Mill on the afternoon of July 13th and by 2pm on the 15th, received our order. We didn’t try the grain mill until a week later. We ground some hard red winter wheat on the fine setting (pastry flour texture) and I…
Read More“…beautiful and solidly built…”
Dear Mr. Jenkins, Just wanted to thank you for my beautiful Country Living Grain Mill, which arrived today. It is even more beautiful and solidly built than I could imagine. I am also delighted to see that the mills are made locally in Washington. I am very new to grain milling and eager to get…
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