Organic Whole Buckwheat Flour
Stone-milled to order at Weatherbury Farm from Organic Westsylvanian Buckwheat which is grown on the farm
One of the world’s healthiest foods. Buckwheat provides a high quality protein with all eight essential amino acids.
One of the best sources of protein in the plant kingdom.
Organic Whole Buckwheat Flour
Milled from Organic Whole Westsylvanian Buckwheat grain grown at Weatherbury Farm. The hulls have been sifted out.
Stone ground flour with a hearty flavor. Ground in one pass and sifted through a very coarse sieve so that any very large pieces of hull are removed.
Contains the minerals, vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, fiber and oils in the same proportions as they are found in the grain.
This flour is not bleached.
2lbs* ($7.38); 5lbs* ($15.46)
* 2 and 5 pound bags are packaged in re-sealable bags .
One pound of flour equals approximately 3 cups of flour.
Please note: While buckwheat has no gluten, Weatherbury’s buckwheat is harvested and cleaned using the same equipment we use for grains with gluten. Weatherbury’s Buckwheat Flour is processed in our mill, where we also process grains with gluten. While there is a vigorous cleanout between types of grain, some wheat flour could remain; thus it cannot be considered gluten free.
Buckwheat in Bloom at Weatherbury Farm
Weatherbury Farm’s Buckwheat Flour is unique — it is traceable back to the field where it was grown!
Weatherbury Farm’s Westsylvanian Buckwheat Tracker traces the Westsylvanian Buckwheat that is milled into flour back to the field where it was grown, here at Weatherbury Farm.
Weatherbury Farm is one of a handful of farms that produces local flours (flour milled from grains grown on the farm). But we take it a step further and provide, through our grain tracker, complete traceability — information & pictures of how, when, and where the grain was grown.
Imagine having a brunch party and serving buckwheat pancakes (or any other of the delicious products possible with Weatherbury’s Buckwheat Flour) — and one of your guests comments on how delectable it is. You pull out your cell phone and click on Weatherbury’s Buckwheat Tracker, say “Let me show you how the grain was grown that the flour was milled from.”
Using Weatherbury Buckwheat Flour
Organic Buckwheat Flour and Buckwheat Grain in the hull
Buckwheat can add both tase and texture to your baked goods. Buckwheat pancakes are the quintessential breakfast food, but buckwheat flour can also be used in muffins, breads, pasta, scones ,coffee cakes, cakes, and cookies
Our “buckwheat pancake” recipe is on the Buckwheat Flour package back. Additionally, our recipe book which is included with your first order has an old fashioned overnight buckwheat cakes recipes (with yeast).
Both the terroir of the soil and the fact that our buckwheat flour is stone-milled give it its wonderful flavor.
How to substitute Weatherbury Buckwheat Flour in your own recipes
Since buckwheat flour does not have gluten, you cannot replace it one for one in a wheat flour recipe. Replacing all of the wheat flour in a recipe with buckwheat flour could be a disaster.
Instead, in a recipe that does not use yeast, up to 25% of the flour can be replaced with Weatherbury Buckwheat Flour.
Up to 15% of all-purpose flour or whole wheat flour in a yeasted recipe can be replaced by Weatherbury Buckwheat Flour without making changes to the recipe.
Looking for 100% buckwheat flavor? Weatherbury Farm’s buckwheat pancake recipes use 100% buckwheat – we enjoy buckwheat pancakes both for breakfast and dinner. There are also a number of recipes on-line that use 100% buckwheat in assorted baked goods.
When you use Weatherbury Buckwheat Flour in baked goods, you not only enhance the taste but make them more nourishing.
Benefits of Buckwheat Flour
Weatherbury Farm mills buckwheat flour from Westsylvanian Buckwheat.
Buckwheat provides a high quality protein with all eight essential amino acids and is one of the best sources of protein in the plant kingdom.
Buckwheat contains Rutin, a phytonutrient, which is an important antioxidant for heart health supports liver, brain and digestive health. It also contains the antioxidant Quercetin.
While Buckwheat is rich in manganese, copper, magnesium, iron and phosphorus, it is lower in vitamins that other pseudocereals and cereals.
But it sure does tastes great.
Storing Buckwheat Flour
There are no preservatives in our flour. Please refrigerate. If you will not be using the flour immediately, please store in the freezer especially in warm weather.
More Information about Buckwheat Flour
History of Buckwheat
Buckwheat is believed to have originated in Southeast Asia 5000 to 6000 years ago. In the 14th century, it came to Russia from Mongolia and then spread throughout Europe. Since then, Buckwheat has been providing essential nutrients, vitamins, energy, and fiber to humanity. Buckwheat arrived in the U.S. with the European colonists. And, since that time, can be found growing in just about every corner of the globe.
Buckwheat — not a grain, but a pseudo-cereal
Buckwheat Flour in the field
Buckwheat is a pseudo-cereal crop (it’s closest relative is rhubarb) that produces short, wide-spreading plants bearing bright green, heart-shaped leaves and lovely white flowers.
While buckwheat can be planted in the spring, at Weatherbury Farm it is planted after our wheat is harvested in July to provide two crops in one year (an excellent soil utilization strategy).
Buckwheat is surrounded by a hull which is removed in milling. The hulls make excellent garden mulch.
Despite its name, buckwheat actually doesn’t contain any wheat or the protein gluten. It is milled, however, on the same mill as wheat at Weatherbury so traces of wheat may remain, despite purging of the mill between flour types.
In the not too distant future (we hope), Weatherbury Farm will be dehulling buckwheat and providing buckwheat groats. The dehuller we purchased needs some fine tuning first.