Posted by KEH on February 11, 2008 at 17:58:35 from (209.213.26.63):
I'll post this as a new thread since the one below about wheat prices and making your own flour is far below now.
I bought a small hand grinder years ago. A hand grinder requires a lot of effort, but think of it as good excercise. For wheat flour, grind the wheat, experimenting to find the proper tightness for the burrs. Sift with a kitchen sifter. You will have wheat flour and the coarser stuff you sifted out is probably called wheat germ and middlings. I used to eat that with milk as cereal. The flour will make dark bread. If you want to use all the wheat for bread, regrind the middlings you sifted out at a tighter setting, mix the two, and have really dark bread. Grinding barley requires more sifting to get the bran out, and I never was really successful. Made some crunchy pancakes.
Open pollinated corn makes better tasting grits and corn meal than hybrid field corn IME. I think there are hybrid varieties of white and yellow corn for meal that have a better taste, but I fooled around with crossing varities until I got a variety that makes good yellow grits and meal. These home ground grits to me are much better than the store kind. There is an old mill at Boykin, SC that grows their own variety of yellow corn and stone grinds it.
To grind your own corn with a hand grinder: grind the corn with as tight a setting as you can stand to turn. Sift the corn. What you sift out can be used for grits by putting an appropriate amount into a pot of water. Wait a few minutes and the bran will float to the top. Pour the bran off. Repeat as necessary. Grits will take a lot longer to cook than store grits and will be a little crunchy. If you don't want to eat grits, feed the sifting to livestock. For meal: take the meal you have sifted out and regrind it at a tighter setting, otherwise the cornbread will be crunchy. It will be necessary to add some baking soda and baking powder to the meal to get it to rise properly. Wife does that, I don't have the exact recipe.
I also experimented with grinding soybeans. Made some high protein pancakes.
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