Flour Power: The complete guide to 3-minute home flour milling (Paperback)

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Quick, Easy, Inexpensive.
If you're looking for a whole-grain health bonanza with just a few minutes of kitchen time, you've picked up the right book! Modern flour mills and bread machines turn bread making into a task no more complicated than grinding beans and brewing breakfast coffee! Flour Power tells you how to compare, locate and buy one of the thirty different mills on the market, how to buy the "right" wheat and how to make delicious, light, whole-meal loaves -- every time.

Guaranteed Whole-Grain Health.
But why bother grinding flour at home? Flour Power explains why virtually all commercial flours (even "whole wheat") have lost fiber, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and phytochemicals during processing and storage. A diet rich in whole grains has been linked to vastly improved health and lower incidences of diseases such as bowel and colon cancer, hemorrhoids, diverticular disease and cardiovascular disease. But in many cases, researchers aren't absolutely certain which components in the whole grain are actually doing the good work. The only safe way to get all the health benefits is to eat all the grain!

Flour Power also tells you how to get whole grains into the diets of gluten sufferers; grind flour manually, if you prefer; ensure food self-sufficiency in case of natural disasters; make a gourmet cook euphoric; prepare an endless variety of delicious (and healthful!) breads, cakes, cookies, muffins, biscuits, cornbread, etc.; grind other items like corn, rye, beans, spelt, quinoa, even peanut butter; and much, much more.

From the Publisher

Flour Power is the only complete guide available on the subject of home milling. It provides never-before-compiled technical information and purchasing contacts for over thirty different flour mills, and complete instructions for comparing mills and selecting the one that is ideal for your lifestyle.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: Jermar Press (March 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970540108
• ISBN-13: 978-0970540102
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #348,301 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Amazing Book Ever!, October 3, 2001

By	Robert Barnett (Santa Rosa, CA United States) - See all my reviews

Flour Power is simply the most amazing book and read I have ever come across. I love bread I love baking bread. However, until getting this book I only made white breads. Now, I am a whole meal bread lover.

Not only does this book cover why you should eat more whole grains, it tells you about the different grains, how to choose and buy a grain mill for milling your own flour at home. It has recipes, a listing of mill sellers and manufacturers, grain sources and more.

Once I started reading, I just couldn't put it down. I read it from cover to cover in one night. I have to tell you that doesn't happen often. If you bake bread by hand, bread machine, mixer, or whatever you have to have this book. ORDER IT NOW!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flour Power, July 25, 2001

By	Squirt66 "squirt66" (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews

The author did a wonderful job of identifying a large variety of grain mills along with specific issues to consider about each such as overheating which destroys the nutrients one tries to save by home grinding, grinding ranges- powder to chunks, dry versus oily, dust, weight, and noise. The reader is well educated on a vast range of grains including gluten, protein, amino acid,and standard uses of each. On a very practical level, she includes detailed info on how to correct/diagnose a flopped loaf of bread with dough enhancers, ingredient altering, kneading and fermentation processes. There is a sampling of recipes along with appendices to find grain mills and grain sources. She takes the intimidation out of bread making by providing a fabulous foundation of knowledge!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Australians looking for good bread, April 30, 2001

By	Joy Carr (Townsville, Australia) - See all my reviews

The theme of this book is 3 minute flour milling, but what follows on from this is the exciting promise of nutritous and delicous loaves of bread. Very interesting,thorough research as well as nutritional info and arguements for home milling. Complete guide to the power of fiber and nutrients as well as how to find time, money and choose the right mill. As a bonus to complete info on mills and milling excellent scientific info on wheat, flours and bread making chemistry. Very good medical info on low fiber conditions, their causes and prevention. A great read for anyone with high cholesterol problems or anyone interested in good health. For all of those who want to live longer, feel healthlier, and taster delicious nutritious bread and other doughs, muffins and sweet treats like cakes and pudding - this book will change your family's life for the better.