Home Grain Milling 101: More Things Your Grain Mill Can Do! #AskWardee 100

As if milling your own flour wasn’t exciting enough, let’s really have some fun!

We covered the basics – why mill your own flour and how mills work — plus how to mill gluten-free flours and how to bake with fresh-ground flour.

So now it’s time to show you what else your grain mill can do!!!

Ready, set, go!

Check out the 4 more things (actually, 5!) your grain mill can do in today’s #AskWardee in print, podcast, or video below!

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Q: What Other Things Can A Grain Mill Do?

Kristy H. asked:

What other things you can do with a flour mill? For instance, can you grind nuts and seeds or do other things with it?

Besides the obvious, your grain mill can do many other things. I’m showing you 4 today. Actually, 5, because I have a bonus tip for you, too!

(We talked about nuts and seeds in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series.)

Be sure to check your mill’s manual or check with the manufacturer before doing any of these things. Mills differ in what they can and can’t do. I went through the major mill types (impact, stone, steel, etc.) and what they can do here in Part 1.

#1 — Sprouted Flour

Aubree K. asks:

Making sprouted flour (we have an excalibur dehydrator)… some mills don’t do well with that?

You can absolutely make sprouted flour in your grain mill. It might be true that some mills don’t allow it. However, all the mills I have used do.

Provided the sprouted grain is very, very dry. (You soak it, let it sprout, then dehydrate it.)

If the grain is fully dry, most mills should do it fine. (Again, double check your with your manufacturer to be sure!)

How to make sprouted flour in the Mockmill:

1. Soak grains.
2. Sprout grains.
3. Dry grains (all the way).
4. Adjust Mockmill to desired fineness.
5. Turn on Mockmill.
6. Add sprouted grain to the hopper, and flour will come out the spout into your bowl.

Check out the video recording above to see how the Mockmill — my favorite mill — handles sprouted grain.

#2 — Cracking Grains

If you have a stone or steel burr mill, or a Vitamix, you can crack grains. Cracked grains are awesome to soak and then add to your bread dough. Or to soak and then boil into a homemade cream-of-wheat, but more versatile and arguably healthier because you can use any grain(s) you’d like instead! See below for a recipe…

How to crack grains in the Mockmill:

1. Adjust Mockmill to desired coarseness.
2. Turn on Mockmill.
3. Add grain to the hopper and your cracked grains will come out the spout into your bowl.
4. Adjust coarseness as needed.
5. Crack different grains if you want a mixed grain mix.

Check out the video recording above to see how the Mockmill — my favorite mill — cracks grain. And look below for a delicious soaked einkorn porridge recipe using cracked einkorn!

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Soaked Einkorn Porridge

Here's an easy, nourishing breakfast porridge made with einkorn cracked in the Mockmill and also soaked to make it extra digestible! 

Course Breakfast

Prep Time 2 minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes

Total Time 8 hours 7 minutes

Servings 3 servings

Author Wardee Harmon

Ingredients

• 1 cup whole einkorn berries cracked in the Mockmill or other grain mill
• 3 1/2 cups pure water
• 1 tablespoon sourdough starter or raw apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon optional
• 2 dropperfuls liquid stevia extract optional; to balance sour
• toppings *

Instructions

1. The evening before you want to enjoy this dish, crack the einkorn berries in the Mockmill.
2. Put cracked einkorn in a small to medium pot.
3. Add warm water and sourdough starter (or apple cider vinegar). Stir briefly. Cover and let soak overnight, or 7 to 8 hours.
4. The next morning, add cinnamon and stevia (if using).
5. Mix while heating over medium heat.
6. Stir constantly as it thickens, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
7. Scoop into bowls, and top as desired. Serve and enjoy!

Recipe Notes

*Dried fruit, chopped nuts, shredded coconut, maple syrup or raw honey, raw milk, butter, sour cream, etc.

#3 — Bean Flour & Other Flours

You can mill other hard items besides grains… like bean flours or corn flour!

See the video above where I show you how to make pea flour. (It’s tasty to add to breads or savory loaves in small amounts.) You can do this with dried black beans, garbanzo beans, and even field corn.

How to make bean flour in the Mockmill:

1. Adjust Mockmill to desired fineness/coarseness.
2. Turn on Mockmill.
3. Add beans to the hopper a little at a time and your bean flour will come out the spout into your bowl.
4. Adjust coarseness as needed.
5. Add different kinds of beans/grains if you want to create a mixed flour.
6. Change containers and run cheap white rice through the mill to clean it out.

Check out the video recording above to see how the Mockmill — my favorite mill — grinds split peas into bean flour!

#4 — Fresh-Ground Pepper & Other Spices

You can save money and increase the quality and flavor of your spices if you grind them fresh… and if you store them in air-tight, light-proof glass herb storage jars like these.

Please note that you should check your manual or manufacturer to find out what spices are ok to use. With the Mockmill, grind only non-oily spices such as black pepper.

How to grind spices in the Mockmill:

1. Adjust Mockmill to desired fineness/coarseness.
2. Turn on Mockmill.
3. Add spices to the hopper a little at a time and your ground spices will come out the spout into your bowl. (With large pieces of spices like cinnamon sticks, you’ll need to chop them up into smaller pieces first.)
4. Adjust coarseness as needed.
5. For best results, store air-tight, light-proof glass herb storage jars like these.
6. Run cheap white rice through the mill to clean it out.

Check out the video recording above to see how the Mockmill — my favorite mill — grinds peppercorns into fresh-ground black pepper!

Here’s a recipe for Chinese five spice powder… ground in the Mockmill!

So, there you have it… 4 not-so-obvious uses for your grain mill! But, I have one more for you, so keep reading…

Bonus #5 — Confectioner’s Sugar

As Paul from Mockmill shared in this webclass we did together, if you have the Mockmill Stand Mixer Attachment that fits KithenAid and Kenmore, you can run a dry sweetener through it to create fine confectioner’s sugar! How cool is that?

Click here for the webclass replay where he explains this. If you don’t have time to watch it, click the link at the bottom to download the transcript and read along!

My Favorite Grain Mill: The Mockmill

As you can tell from this series, the Mockmill is my favorite grain mill and the one I recommend!

The Mockmill is a home stone grain mill, and it’s engineered and manufactured in Germany by Wolfgang Mock. He started making home grain mills back in the 1970s, so he’s been doing it for over 40 years. It’s estimated that nearly 70% of the stone mills out there are made by him.

This mill is super exciting because it contains the best features of Wolfgang Mock’s milling career, yet it’s much more affordable. The reason it’s more affordable is because this mill comes in a durable recycled material housing (instead of expensive wood).

I love the flour it produces because it’s super healthy and nutritious (being fresh ground), and it has a really fine texture. So, it makes wonderful, light bread, and it’s cool to the touch instead of being warmed up as some mills will do.

Furthermore, this mill will grind all grains, even gluten-free. It can even crack grains for porridge, and it has many other uses (like spices, nuts, and seeds).

You can see how it works in this video:

All the details — including the very affordable price and FREE SHIPPING — are on this page. By the way, it also comes as a KitchenAid attachment — very exciting for those who don’t want another appliance to take up any more room!Also with your purchase of the Mockmill, you’ll get two fantastic eBooks from the Mockmill team: The Mockmill Farm Directory & Grain Milling Guide and The Mockmill Recipe Guide. Both of these eBooks are fabulous!

And, for a limited time… if you decide to purchase the Mockmill, I’m throwing in complimentary copies of both my Sourdough A to Z and Einkorn Baking eBook and Video Packages. They’re each worth $64 for a total of $128 in additional bonuses from me.

To claim your extra free bonuses from me after purchasing the Mockmill, just go to tradcookschool.com/millbonus. Have your order # handy, because you’ll need it to claim the two free eBook packages!

Helpful Links

• The Mockmill — my favorite and recommended (affordable) home stone grain mill — Hurry! The limited time offer to get my eBook packages valued at $128 won’t last long!
• Claim your FREE ($128 value) bonuses with your purchase of the Mockmill here!
• Nutrimill
• Vitamix
• Free “Home Grain Milling 101” eBook — it’s all 4 parts of this series combined into a single, FREE download from me!
• Home Grain Milling 101, Part 1: The Basics
• Home Grain Milling 101, Part 2: Milling Gluten-Free Grains Into Flour
• Home Grain Milling 101, Part 3: Baking With Fresh-Ground Flour
• FREE Webclass: Baking With Fresh-Ground Flour
• FREE No-knead Sourdough Einkorn Bread Recipe
• Why I <3 Einkorn — in case you want to know why we bake with the healthier 5,000 year-old wheat called einkorn!
• Where To Buy Einkorn
• Air-tight, light-proof glass herb storage jars

By the way, I want to give credit to Vickilynn Haycraft, my dear friend and “milling mentor”, who introduced me to grain milling years ago and who contributed to some of these answers. I also want to thank Wolfgang Mock, whose stone grain mill — the Mockmill — I am using for demonstrating various milling tasks in this series. And finally, I want to thank Jade Koyle from Einkorn.com for his wonderful einkorn grain and help with using the Mockmill!

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• Milling Soft Wheat In A Grain Mill {Homemade Pastry Flour} #AskWardee 131
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What not-so-obvious things do you do with your grain mill? Please share in the comments!