Organic Bread Flour

So, from my little stat program I have noticed that the majority of the hits to my blog come from people interested in “Organic Bread Flour”, which I must have posted about sometime a couple of years back. Now, I honestly do not know much more about organic bread flour than I knew back then years ago, but I do know what we use now.

For our bread, we use a flour that is not actually categorized as ‘bread’ flour, but is just plain regular white flour. Our main source of flour comes from Swany Mills which from that link has a scant 4 employees! Swany organic white flour, while not marketed as bread flour, is quite high in gluten and works well for all of our breads and what not. 90% of the time, unless you are working with some crazy recipe, all purpose flour has the sufficient glutens and proteins needed to make good bread. Making sure that it is kneaded enough to make the glutenal matrix is key. We also had really good luck with Heartland Mill Flour, but it wasn’t quite local enough for our needs. Although Kansas isn’t ‘that’ far, it is far enough that we wouldn’t be able to put it into the local category. Swany works well as it satisfies both of our goals, local and organic. Both flours are great for most bread purposes.

Whole Grain Milling is our source for non-white flour. They have a fantastic pumpernickel and rye flour as well as a whole wheat bread flour that produces a nice product. While they are a local company, it is my understanding that they sometimes buy other grains in order to keep up with a demand that surpasses the farm’s capacity. Everything is certified organic and of good quality (they also make corn chips of both blue and yellow corn grown on their farm). I am have been a strong supporter of WGM’s product a couple of years now, and will be in the future to be sure.

So…

That is about all I have to say about organic bread flour, there is a good chance I am forgetting something as it is getting late and I am coming off of three 11-12 hour days in a row. Not to mention I have a field trip to Peace Coffee tomorrow morning for all the newish employees.

And now I post some random picture that I lurve from my Flick-ah…