Bob's Red Mill Malted Barley Flour, 20-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4)

by Bob's Red Mill

Product Features

• Case of four 20-ounce packages (80 total ounces)
• Made from 100% all-natural malted barley
• An excellent source of protein and fiber
• Use to add a unique sweet flavor to any bread
• Packaged in Milwaukie, Oregon

Product Description

About the Brand

Bob Moore's secret to life may just be "work hard and keep it simple." Living this philosophy, Bob literally puts his nose to the grindstone every day. Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods is an Oregon-based company that utilizes simple, old-world technology to mill hundreds of all-natural whole grain products.

Bob's Red Mill is dedicated to the manufacturing of natural foods in the natural way. In their own words: "With all the sophisticated knowledge of recent times, no machinery has yet been developed that grinds grains into flour quite as well as our flint-hard quartz millstones quarried in France and used by discriminating millers since early Roman times."

"Our well-dressed (sharpened) sets of millstones turn the highest quality wheat into a finer, better baking bread flour than all the hammer mills, steel roller mills, steel buhr mills, or pulverizers ever built! These slow turning millstones grind the bran, endosperm, and germ (containing its nutritious wheat germ oil) into flour in a cool natural way, creating a more assimilable food."

Bob's Red Mill stone grinds all common and most uncommon grains into flours and meals on its over 100-year-old mills. They mix them into an astounding array of unique cereals, pancake and waffle mixes, machine and hand-made bread mixes, quick bread mixes, gluten-free mixes, and specialty grain products.

Product Description

May be used in place of, or in addition to, other sweeteners to feed the yeast in your dough. One teaspoon per loaf will give you bread that is bigger, tastier, and more finely textured than usual. Malted Barley Flour is simply barley that has been sprouted, dried and ground into flour. You can see our quality. All natural. 100% whole grain, excellent source.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EDDS02
• UPC: 039978012999
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,282 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #16 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Cooking & Baking Supplies > Flours & Meals > Barley Flour

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lost art of malt baking, January 11, 2009

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J. Preston (San Juan Mountains) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Malted Barley Flour, 20-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4) (Grocery)

Malt flavoring in baking (or other culinary delights) is a lost art.

My Mom owned a bake shop until she was about 75 years old and knew many of the secrets of great baking.

Malted flour was one of them.

I use this primarily for baking light rye bread, and, for waffles. It is not possible to find a substitute.

This is great for honey whole wheat. Honey is a great flavor additive, but, it addition to being a sweetener for the yeast, honey is also a natural antiseptic, so, it tends to retard the yeast. A tablespoon or a couple of ounces of this stuff helps keep the yeast at its proper activity level in honey whole wheat bread.

When you are baking, you can adjust your leavening because the natural sugars in this ingredient will accelerate both yeast and baking powder or soda.

This is an excellent quality product and empowers to home chef to make delights from a bygone era. A small amount of malted barley will enhance the flavor of many bakery items that need a little bit of a sweetener and which can benefit from a whisper of an exotic taste.

Here is an excellent recipe for Norwegian waffles:

2 fresh organic free-roaming eggs
1 cup of organic all-purpose unbleached flour Flour, All Purpose, Unbleached, 5 lb.
1 cup of organic whole wheat flour Whole Wheat Bread Flour, 1 lb.
1/2 cup of olive oil (EVO) (you can substitue melted butter if you like)
1-3/4 cups of buttermilk
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of malted barley flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Pour into the center of the iron, immediately pour in some chopped pecans.

When done (about 5 minutes or until tops steam) cover with shaved Norwegian (Viking) brown cheese (Ekte Gjetost) Ekte Gjetost (1.1 pound) by [...] . . . TO DIE FOR!

Quick Tips for Master Baking:

Start your yeast with some malted barley flour. This works especially well for heavy breads like honey whole wheat and rye. Take about three or four ounces of your water. Make sure it is about body temperature (about 100 degrees F). Add a few tablespoons of malted barley flour. Add the yeast. This will accelerate the yeast's activity and you need to get it into your mix after about a minute or two. What you add to the water while starting your yeast often subtley determines the flavor of your bread or raised product.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Flour, as stated, not powder, June 7, 2010

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J. Rich (Massachusetts, United States) - See all my reviews
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Searching the internet may tell you that malt flour is sometimes called malt powder. This may lead you to believe that this is a malt powder, such as you might use for making beer or a killer malted milkshake. Although this product is visually indistinguishable from such malt powder, it tastes like flour, and cannot be used for these purposes unless you like four in your milkshake. It does make for really good pancakes, as long as you don't add too much. I would go no more than 1/4 malt flour to 3/4 regular flour, and possibly less.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good stuff...., March 24, 2010

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Claudia Bell (Valley Springs, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bob's Red Mill Malted Barley Flour, 20-Ounce Packages (Pack of 4) (Grocery)

Great for adding a little to bread when baking, but tried to bake a loaf with just this and, well kids, don't try that at home. we always have a bit of barley on hand, but this will last us forever. anyone need a bag of barley???