Our apologies for the lack of updates from Prior’s Flour HQ! The New Year has seen lively shop and online flour sales, so thank you to everyone for your continued interest and business! At the end of 2020, we completed an important piece of planned maintenance, the replacement of the Fantail Stocks and Blades. This […]

In our previous post, we explored the process we use to secure samples of wheat from our farmers and clean the grain ready for milling and test baking. In this post, we look at the test baking process, bringing the test doughs together and assessing how the doughs perform during the kneading, stretching & folding […]

Firstly, our apologies for the recent radio silence from Priors Flour HQ! A well needed holiday in September followed by a very busy period of customer orders has meant much of our time has been milling and packing flour. However, along with the milling, we are also finding time to assess samples of 2020 harvest […]

Swaffham Prior is unique in the UK – it has two windmills in close proximity both with their sails! The mills worked together from 1896 until 1927, with Fosters Mill gristing animal feed and the Smock Tower mill (built around 1820) providing flour for human consumption. Then, on an horrendous autumn night, during an almighty […]