All You Need for Hearty Bread
To follow on from Matts article and videos about making ‘no knead’ bread here is a source of the most important ingredient, flour.
Deep in the heart of Northumberland is the North East’s only organic flour mill. Gilchesters Organics’ mill at Stamfordham gently stone grinds rare breed grains into some of the finest flour that you can lay hands on. In fact, the Gilchesters process is special from start to finish. The rare breed grain is specially suited to conditions in this corner of the world. It is grown in pure, unadulterated soil, free from pesticides, herbicides fungicides and agrochemicals.
This healthy soil acts as a living reservoir from which the grain draws the nutrients it needs to grow away from diseases, shade out weeds and produce its full complement of minerals and vitamins. Only when the time is absolutely right is the grain harvested and then the mill goes to work slowly and gently unlocking the goodness, ensuring a better gluten structure and leaving the concentrations of vitamins intact.
Gilchesters only mill what they grow themselves, so they can promise total trace-ability from seed, to soil, to stone grinding. They can also promise flavoursome nutritious flour that delivers all the goodness you should be getting with your daily bread – naturally.
You can buy Gilchesters flour and hand made spelt biscuits in the BigBarn MarketPlace or call 01661 886 119 and ask for Andrew or Sybille Wilkinson or to find your other nearest flour producers in MarketPlace.
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