Ancient Grain Recipes

Practical recipes built around fresh-milled einkorn, spelt, Kamut, emmer and other traditional grains—from everyday breads and sourdough to breakfast favorites, hearty suppers and a few things worth making simply because they taste good.

What you’ll find here: dependable ancient-grain recipes with gram measurements, fresh-milled flour handling notes, practical substitutions and grain-specific tips. Use the search and filters below to quickly narrow the collection by grain or recipe type.

Start with Fresh-Milled Bread Basics

Ten dependable recipes covering sandwich loaves, rye, buns, dinner rolls, French bread, a Pullman loaf, and West Virginia pepperoni rolls—with gram weights, baker’s percentages, hydration cues, troubleshooting, and recommended tools.

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One Grain, Five Ways

Choose a grain and learn it through five useful recipes—not just a definition.

Appalachian Grain Table

Eight fresh-milled recipes rooted in mountain tables: soup beans and cornbread, stack cake, buckwheat pancakes, skillet biscuits, sausage gravy, apple butter bread, blackberry cobbler, and West Virginia pepperoni rolls.

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Sourdough Discard Collection

Eight useful recipes for fresh-milled discard: sandwich bread, einkorn crackers, spelt pancakes, Kamut cinnamon rolls, pizza crust, biscuits, banana bread, and soft pretzels.

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