The home of stone-ground artisan flour ground by wind power
With Easter around the corner, please see below the dates on which our mail order service will be closed for staff holidays:
Closed from 20th March 2024 until 2nd April.
Orders received on the 20th March will be processed before our break, then again on the 2nd April.
The mill shop remains open, so customers who can come to the mill will be welcomed on the 21st March and the 28th March!
Happy Easter Everyone!
#RealBreadWeek is upon us and what better way than to re-stock your larder than with some of our new high protein milling wheat & flours, milled from wheat grown by Angus McDowall of North Berwick.
We are pleased to have been able to pass on some of the price reductions we have achieved in purchasing this latest harvest. You will recall that grain prices for the 2022 harvest rocketed after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Thankfully, the market has calmed down somewhat and as a result, we have passed on savings to you on all our grains and most of our flour products.
We have recently taken delivery of Mulika variety wheat grown in North Berwick. The 2023 harvest turned out to be a real headache for us millers. Drought in the early summer of 2023 meant the spring sown grain crops struggled for lack of moisture at a key period in the growing cycle, especially in the South East and East Anglia. As a result most of the usual farms we would by from produced grains which were pinched (small and shrivelled) leading to poor Bushel weights. Whilst protein levels were good, the high proportion of bran to starch (too little starch), meant either millers had to blend parcels of wheat together (something we don’t have the space to do), or to go further afield. Thankfully, the cooler growing conditions of the North East enabled Angus to grow a crop with fuller grains and our new flour has a protein content of 13.2%.
Our new flours and high protein grain have all the qualities you would expect from the Priors Flour and, cheaper prices to boot! See our test bakes – sourdough by hand & machine bakes!
As we come to the end of 2023, the Prior’s Flour team wishes all our customers, friends and supporters a Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year! We’ve not had any snow as yet, but Prior’s Flour HQ is certainly looking festive:
Last orders to guarantee Christmas delivery / click & collect are Wednesday 20th December. Orders after this date will be processed early in the New Year.
The Mill Shop will open on the 21st December 9am to 1pm and then re-open on the 4th January 9am to 1pm.
Finally, we’d like to thank you for your continued support purchasing the Prior’s Flour. We’ve had a tremendous year supplying our domestic and trade customers all over the UK. Our new shop and packing shed commissioned in Janaury 2023 has been put to full use. We took on the lease of a local barn to store grain in April 2023. This has provided us with a greatly increased capacity for grain storage close to the mill, significantly reducing the food miles of many of the organic grains we mill.
We look forward to working with you in 2024, helping you bake fantastic bread and cakes or simply enjoying our traditional milling heritage.
Sarah Dodge, Tim Young and Jon Cook – the Prior’s Flour Team xxx
We are pleased to add some Christmas Cheer to this year’s proceedings by unveiling lower prices for our spelt and rye products. These are now live on the website and in-store.
We ran a successful promotion during November offering you 20% off our rye products. Now, given reductions in the prices of spelt and rye grains, we are able to extend price reductions on a longer-term basis (not quite the full 20% of late, but not far off!). Just as inflation in the UK is falling, so too are the prices for grains. The price of grain is impacted by international trading markets, the farmer’s input costs (fuel, seed, labour etc), processing costs (cleaning the grain and moving it) and the quality of harvests. 2022 saw an unprecedented rise in the price per tonne of all the grains we mill. Thankfully, these cost pressures are now easing and, as we begin milling new season grains, we can pass these reductions on to you!
The Mill Shop and Mail / Click & Collect Order facility are open until Thursday 21st December. Please get your orders in by the 19th December to enable us to process them and get them dispatched in time for Christmas.
The mill and shop will re-open on 4th January 2024.
We would like to thank you for your business during 2023 and wish you a Happy Christmas and prosperous New Year!
Jon, Tim and Sarah, the Priors Flour Team.
As the nights draw in and stews and soups creap back onto the menu, the kitchen at Priors Flour HQ is the place to be, huddled around the aga! To help you while away the winter nights, we’re offering a 20% discount on our rye flours for the month of November! Prices are now reduced on the website and in the shop, so dust down those recipes for your favourite rye breads!
Don’t forget the cheaper shipping rate for parcels under 8kgs!
