The woman who taught me how to bake bread, more than 40 years ago, when her husband was in medical school and she was a substitute teacher, had a manual grinder because whole wheat berries were so cheap in Detroit in those days. They used to fasten the grinder to a board and lay it across some plastic storage barrels and take turns grinding and sitting on the other end of the board to anchor it. I wanted a mill all these years. This summer, I heard of a grain CSA which I bought and split with my daughter. Rather than repay me for their half the share, my daughter and her husband bought me a grain mill. We made bread today, using the KA recipe. It is still in the oven but I did not find making fresh whole wheat bread the formidable task I was led to believe although the people who are the CSA told me that fresh wheat sometimes never bakes in the middle. I hand kneaded the bread as I do not like the taste of bread that is machine kneaded. We shall see.

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