Easy Freshly Milled Flour Bread Machine Recipe

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The smell of bread wafting through your home is a welcome treat no matter where you are! There is not much more delicious! This easy freshly milled flour bread machine recipe can make that a regular treat in your house!

Freshly milled flour bread is super healthy AND delicious, it is a combo most dream of. But when you add that it is SUPER EASY too, you’ve hit a home run with your cooking!

Easy, Nutritious, Delicious

I have three criteria if I am going to put forth the time and energy to cook. The food must be: super simple, super nutritious, and super delicious. This recipe is a core staple in my house and meets all three criteria with flying colors. It is a staple because it is a very nutrient-dense, delicious food that everybody loves and there are so many things that can be made from this delicious bread: croutons, french toast, sandwiches, scrambled eggs with bread cubes…

Making homemade bread is delicious and nutritious but can take a long time with a good amount of effort.

A way to make it very easy is with a bread machine! It is also extremely healthy and more delicious when made with freshly ground flour . Chock full of nutrition and melt-in-your-mouth flavor, I like it best with a little butter and a drizzling of honey.

No Guilt!

Freshly milled flour is the key! It makes a world of difference to grind your own flour fresh from the wheat berry. Freshly milled flour contains ALL parts of the wheat berry which offer a wealth of nutrition!.

Freshly Milled Flour

It used to be the norm in society to eat the full, nutritious wheat berry until “white bread” became popular. This is where the nutritious parts of the wheat are sifted out of the flour leaving just the starchy, nutrient-depleted, part of the wheat berry with an out of proportionate amount of gluten. It is also when a lot of diseases entered our society.

Is gluten really the problem?

Most people do not have a problem with gluten in its natural, God-given proportions as found in nature. Yet, gluten has also taken a lot of blame for digestive issues when there are several other ingredients in store bought bread that cause the things gluten is blamed for.

Nutrition Tips

As a health educator, if someone says they have a problem with gluten, my first question is if they have ever eaten gluten completely isolated. If they never have, there is no way, scientifically, to conclude that gluten is the problem. This is especially true if they get stomach problems after eating store-bought bread that contains several ingredients that clearly state digestive problems as a side-effect. For more info see “The Truth about Wheat“.

Therefore, the first nutritional habit I teach all my clients is to read ingredient labels. Knowing each ingredient is the only way to assess how healthy a food is. It’s a very easy way to go from average consumer to educated consumer.

The good thing about this recipe is… there are no ingredient labels to read! When you make food from scratch, you are controlling every ingredient so you only put in what you want to eat!

It sounds so primitive since it is not common these days but grinding your own grains is so easy. All it takes is a grain mill. Then the doors to an avalanche of nutrients come falling your way.

High Nutrition

This bread is low-gluten, high protein, high fiber and flooded with vitamins and minerals. The evidence is how good you feel after you eat it. High, sustained energy and a full-feeling keep you from craving snacks between meals.

I was literally the queen of snacking prior to eating this bread. Then I started eating this easy freshly milled flour bread with an egg for breakfast and it filled me up so much that I wouldn’t want snacks or even be hungry for lunch until about 2pm.

Good nutrition is what our bodies crave. Even if we get enough calories, we will continue to crave more and more food until the nutrients our bodies need are eaten. Good nutrition is also the best way to keep our weight in check. Filling up on on nutritious food first is a sure way to keep us healthier because our stomachs will be satisfied and our cravings will get under control.

Easy

To make it simple, I keep the ingredients on hand so it is super easy to whip up a loaf of bread at a moment’s notice. I have invested in a bread machine, grain mill, wheat berries, and kitchen scale. I also got some nice storage containers to store them in. (See this article for links.) I didn’t do it all at once but got a bread machine first and used a friend’s grinder. After I made sure it was something I wanted to do long term, I then invested in a grain mill.

Making food from scratch is obviously some more work than prepackaged food. But not when you factor in the grocery shopping time of premade food vs. only one shopping trip every month or less because you stock up on basic ingredients. It ends up saving me tons of time in the long-run because I never have to run out the store when I want bread.

Bread Machine

All the ingredients for this easy freshly milled flour bread are in my house already so it literally takes me 5 minutes to put ingredients in the pan and the bread machine does the rest!

After many years later, I have never looked regretted the investment! I have been on this homemade bread journey for many years and have continued to enjoy all the many health benefits. It literally takes me less than 5 minutes to put all the ingredients in the machine. Then 3 hours later, a delicious loaf of bread is baked and filling my home with a mouth-watering aroma!

Economical

There is an initial investment of the grain mill and bread machine but the cost of the wheat berries to grind is so much cheaper than store bought flour, bread, cookies, muffins,… that you immediately start saving on the cost of groceries. This quickly offsets the cost of the grain mill.

Ingredients

Fresh, high quality ingredients are key! I try to buy as much local as I can and it really makes a difference.

Freshly Milled Flour

Flour – A variety of freshly ground wheat berries can be used. I have used all hard white, half hard white/half hard red, and often hard white with a cup of spelt berries. All hard white or half hard white wheat and half hard red wheat. Spelt gives a lighter, fluffier loaf.

I have made loaves with all spelt and it rises more but is a little too light & airy for me. I think the rise and texture is perfect when adding 1 cup of spelt to 3-4 cups of wheat. The bread machine settings in the recipe work best for me when the wheat is chilled first. I have tweaked the settings over the years and what is listed guarantees a great loaf every time for me. It is SO easy to make! Humidity and altitude affect the rise so it may need to be tweaked for different locations.

Honey – Since honey is one of the most counterfeited foods sold in grocery stores, I only buy local honey. The taste is so delicious, that we often take a spoonful instead of a less healthy treat to satisfy sweet cravings. I buy in bulk to get the best deal from a local honey farm. It adds delicious flavor in this recipe and especially when drizzled on a steaming hot piece of fresh bread!

Salt – I used “Real Salt” from Azure Standard. It can also be bought on Amazon. It is unrefined and natural and good for all cooking and baking. Again, I buy in bulk to get the best price so I can afford this high quality salt.

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Equipment

 Grain mill  I highly recommend this Nutrimill grain mill. I have had this and used it a lot for over 10 years never having one single problem with it and it consistently produces perfectly milled grains.

I recommend it over the Wondermill for the simple reason that the Wondermill will break if you turn it off while grinding. It was a MAJOR problem when using a friend’s mill and flour was spewing all over the place so it needed to be turned off. The repair was a huge hassle and big expense. Seems to be basic Electronics 101 that you should be able to turn it off if needed without breaking the machine.

The Nutrimill grinds fine or coarse, making great bread or cookies. There are other more expensive grinders that are prettier but I am sticking with mine because of the incredible reliability and end product. Simple and reliable make it easy to cook the most nutritious foods very easily.

Bread Machine  This machine makes the best bread!! The custom settings and extra heating element in the top really makes this machine the best one that I know of.

Bread Box This is the bread box I have used for years with great success keeping the bread fresher than it does in other packaging.

How To Eat

This bread is so good that you do not need anything on it but my favorite way to eat it is with a little spread of butter and a drizzling of honey. Have fun trying your own spreads on it to serve in a variety of ways!

Once you try this bread, you will realize how easy and delicious it is and you will never want store bought bread again!

Easy freshly milled flour bread is a great way to jump start your nutrition goals this year! Let me know in the comments your favorite ways to eat it 🙂