The first week of December has been a momentous week for the Priors Flour. We have commissioned our new Grain Store and taken delivery of a fantastic parcel of high protein (13.8%) milling wheat from the 2025 harvest. You have a real treat in store baking with our 2025 harvest white and wholemeal additive-free organic bread flours!
2025 Harvest Edelmann Wheat
We have been lucky to secure a parcel of Edelmann variety milling wheat from the Ednaston Estate in Derbyshire. As you will have read from previous posts, the 2025 harvest was challenging in many ways, the drought led to grain being smaller, lower yielding, but also higher protein (important because this is what creates the gluten in the dough). We tested 6 samples of wheat, a number from farms in East Anglia. The best sample was the one from the Ednaston Estate. Edelmann is a continental variety of wheat, a winter wheat (sown in the autumn), a new variety – but one cultivated from heritage varieties of grain. It is tall stemmed and has well developed leaf structure which enables it to better out-compete weeds in an organic system.
As you can see from the photos, our 2025 harvest white & wholemeal flours produce a fantastic loaf, whether you are working with sourdough, yeasted or machine processes. There is bags of flavour, a lovely light crumb and an extensible dough as you build your loaves! We know you will enjoy it.
New Grain Store
Over the last two months we have been planning and then moving our grain store to Adventurers Farm on the Ely side of Swaffham Prior. We are grateful to Newton Farms Ltd for their help in establishing our store in a modern building, Rob and his team for moving our grain bins and associated infrastructure and James Wilmott and our other friends for their help and support; it has been a major undertaking. The new building offers us greater capacity and ability to scale the Priors Flour business. Here you see the new grain being blown into our storage bins:
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