How to Make Your Own All-Purpose Flour
Making all-purpose flour at home is as easy as grinding wheat grains to a powder, and sifting out the bran!
Ingredients
Whole wheat grains
A blender, coffee grinder, or food processor
A fine sieve
Instructions
- Step one, check your grains and remove any that look discolored. This will give you nicer-looking flour without specs.
- Step two, place your grains into your grinding device. I used the small attachment from my blender and did about ¼ cup at a time. You don’t want to make too much, only enough for use within a week.
- Step three, blend your grains for around 1 minute until they look like a fine powder.
- Step four, pour the grain powder into your sieve and process the mixture. You will be left with the bran and germ from the grain in the sieve and the endosperm in the bowl (which is the all-purpose flour).
- Step five is optional but recommended. Take the bran and germ and blend and sift again, just to make sure you have as much flour out as possible.
- Step six is also optional, but it will give you finer flour. I then sifted my all-purpose through a fine tea strainer! This left me with a very well-sifted, soft, fine flour which I love for pancakes.