The Manly Man’s Milling Machine

Hello Mr. Jenkins, You kindly brought one of your mills to the Grain Gathering at WSU-Mount Vernon in August, where I picked it up. Since then the mill has been out in the shop where my husband has been working on motorizing the mill and making a cart, so the mill can be portable. He…

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90 Year Old Grinds Flour by Hand

We received the following note from a Country Living Mill owner: “Love our mill.  My father (90 years old) has adopted it — He’d grind flour every day I think!  We really do love it. Here’s a picture from one week in January, so you can see what we’re doing. All sourdough, no added yeast,…

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The Most Beautiful Thing in the World

The Most Beautiful Thing in The World Alicia; one of Jack’s 28 grandchildren I took a little, informal poll the other day.  The question wasn’t very controversial and the responses won’t change anybody’s foreign policy or campaign strategy.  But for me?  The answers made my day. I was musing one day over the many lovely…

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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…

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Light 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,…

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Great 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…

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Redefining 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…

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Americans 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…

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Wheat 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…

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