We love flour, and the choices we make provide flavor and nutrition to our bread. Wherever possible, we recommend the use of freshly milled, local flours. In this way, we extend our Baking the World A Better Place to foster a vibrant regional grain economy and deepen our respect for providing local food banks with items made from high-quality ingredients. At the same time, our love of baking and need to create a sustainable non-profit organization creates a winning combination. Through our Flour Fundraiser online store, our volunteer bakers can purchase these flours at a steep discount to retail pricing, and we manage to fundraise at the same time.
But what if you need to make a substitution? Substitutions are sometimes needed. Here are our recommended flours and approved substitutions:
Satisfying Whole Wheat Loaf
Recipe: Satisfying Whole Wheat Loaf
Made with 100% organic hard white whole wheat flour, a flour worth loving. It has terrific baking qualities: sweet, mild and strong. That's a win-win for the baker. Food bank clients tell us that after one bite, they can't believe it's 100% whole wheat.
Recommended: Central Milling Organic Hard White Whole Wheat
Substitutions: None, please. Using the same flour means our partner food banks receive a consistent loaf.
Recipe: Satisfying Whole Wheat Loaf
Made with 100% organic hard white whole wheat flour, a flour worth loving. It has terrific baking qualities: sweet, mild and strong. That's a win-win for the baker. Food bank clients tell us that after one bite, they can't believe it's 100% whole wheat.
Recommended: King Arthur Golden Wheat Flour or an equivalent white whole wheat flour. Golden Wheat is often available at your local grocery store.
Honey Oat Loaf
Recipe: The Modern · The Classic · The Purist
Our Honey Oat Loaf calls for two flours: a high-extraction flour and a whole grain flour.
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What is a high-extraction flour? It's typically a stone-ground flour that keeps more of the wheat's nutrients, with the larger bran pieces sifted out. All our testing for this loaf was done with a T85 flour. We get our high-extraction flour from local Cairnspring Mills.
Tip: You can also mill your own whole grain flour!
Recipe: The Modern · The Classic · The Purist
Our Honey Oat Loaf uses a blend of two flours. This blend gives your loaf the same great nutrition as our signature formula.
Recommended:
- 35% organic all-purpose bread flour
- 65% organic whole grain bread flour
We prefer organic whenever possible. King Arthur and Bob's Red Mill both offer good organic choices.
Prefer one flour, no blending? Central Milling Organic Type 110 is an excellent one-stop choice. Use code Community30 for a discount.
Sunflower Rye Loaf
Recipe: Yeast Version · Hybrid Version
Our Sunflower Rye Loaf combines rye flour with hard white whole wheat flour.
Recommended: Fairhaven Organic Rye Flour, Whole Grain, from our local Fairhaven Mill, and Central Milling Organic Hard White Whole Wheat
Recipe: Yeast Version · Hybrid Version
Our Sunflower Rye Loaf combines rye flour with hard white whole wheat flour.
Recommended:
- Rye flour: Bob's Red Mill or King Arthur, the darker the better
- Wheat flour: a hard white whole wheat flour, such as King Arthur Golden Wheat Flour