And a question:
Has anyone used a brand of flour called Blue Bird Flour? Apparently it's milled in Colorado.
I'm asking, because the Green Spray (the small, locally-owned grocery here in town - they don't carry every item and every brand I use but I like to shop there because they are saner than the wal-mart) has it. It comes in cloth sacks! Now, these are not cloth like the old feedsack cloth that quilters love (it's not printed), but it is cloth and it has a bluebird on the front. And it comes in small-ish amounts (I think they had five-pound sacks). And I admit, I like the idea of both buying flour from a smaller mill (I usually buy Gold Medal) and I like the idea of having the empty sacks to do something with - maybe even make new kitchen curtains someday (I like the idea of repurposed flour sacks as curtains). But: I need to know: is it hard wheat? Soft wheat? Is it good?
One online site claims it's the "only" flour that Navajo will use, but I don't know about that. ("Only" might also mean, "most reasonable and readily available, especially in large quantities, for people who don't get to the grocery often")
I don't use a LOT of flour - I don't bake bread as often as I once did, and these days, I'm actually more likely to make tortillas - so I don't need to replenish my flour stocks just yet. But it would be nice to get either a "Oh yes, buy it, it's fantastic!" or a "you might be disappointed" to let me know whether to consider going with Bluebird the next time I'm ready to buy flour.
3 comments:
I've not heard of that brand of flour but if the price is acceptable, why not get five pounds? That's not a lot of flour and you could test bake several items with it ... tortillas, bread, biscuits, cake, pie crust, etc. and form your own opinion of it.
I live in a climate that's humid in the summer. I don't know about Bluebird Flour, but I do know that humidity changes the amount of liquid you will need for breadmaking--different amounts on different days, depending on the weather. And it seems that a cloth sack might allow more humidity to penetrate the flour. Is Bluebird bleached?
it's not so much "hard wheat" or "soft wheat" so much as it's what type of flour is it. is it AP? or does it just say "flour."
AP works for a lot of things, including bread-making. I've even used it for cakes, but it doesn't come out quite as light, as it forms more gluten than cake flour.
I'm with Charlotte. Buy a bag and play! It can't be that much of an investment. (I buy King Arthur White Whole Wheat for my bread baking. I get the benefits of whole wheat without the taste (they use a different type of wheat that isn't colored like regular wheat) and my kids scarf down the bread i make)
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