On Our homestead — mill
Making Buckwheat Flour from Tartary or Japanese Buckwheat
The 'hulls' on buckwheat often scare people away from this easily grown 'grain'. Instead of removing the hulls to make buckwheat groats, we can easily make flour to use in pancakes. I will describe how we prepare flour with equipment we have, and give suggestion for alternative methods. A device for home scale buckwheat hull removal is one of those 'things' that everybody wants but nobody has the plans to build (yet). If you could perform this task, then, you'd have groats, like this: In this case, I am wanting to make flour. We will start with clean Tartary Buckwheat. This...