Name: Azure Market Organics Heirloom Pastry Flour (Unifine), Organic, 27 oz
Brand: My Store
SKU: FL423
Price: 3.59 USD
Availability: InStock

Compared to modern varieties of wheat, Azure Market Organics Heirloom Pastry Flour Unifine is lower in gluten and higher in protein, micronutrients, minerals, and antioxidants. 120 years ago the ancient wheat that David found would have been the standard. These days the typical, commercially-produced wheat in this country has been hybridized for higher yields and easier harvesting, not for nutrition. Modern wheat is dwarf wheat. The plants grow shorter and produce more grain per acre, but as David suggests, it requires a lot of nitrogen and other chemicals that he wasn’t willing to use on the Azure farm.

“I wanted more organic matter in the soil – more straw to increase the humus content,” he said. “This heirloom variety is taller and whiskerless. It looks like spelt in the field and you have to harvest it the minute it’s ripe. Otherwise, the wind just shoots all the grain out onto the ground. You can’t grow this type of heirloom wheat on big, corporate-run farms. It’s just not efficient.”

When you combine this superior, ancient variety of wheat with Azure’s own Unifine milling process, you get a pastry flour that bakes up brilliantly.

“It has a very thin bran layer, so it makes a fantastic, 100% whole grain pastry flour,” David said. “It’s ideal for everything BUT bread… pancakes, muffins, pastries of any sort. And pie dough! This flour makes the best whole grain pie crust you’ll ever get, that’s for sure.”

Azure has one of only three mills in the country that utilize the Unifine milling method.

The Unifine milling process results in a nutritionally superior flour with a texture that makes it a dream for baking. If all you’ve ever baked with is store-bought, all-purpose flour, you’ll be amazed by the difference in flavor and consistency of our Unifine flours.

Curious how it works?

Azure’s Unifine mill processes the entire bran, germ, and endosperm of the grain into a nutritious, whole-grain flour in one step. Instead of crushing or cutting the grain, the Unifine process uses a high-speed rotor with a single-pass impact system to instantly pulverize the kernels of grains, never subjecting them to the high temperatures common in regular grain milling. Using the entire grain without any heat means the valuable nutrients of ancient grains are retained, so the whole grain flours have longer shelf-life, better flavor, and more nutrition. In fact, Unifine flours are packed with many times the nutritional value than commercial roller-milled flours and stone ground flours — they contain almost four times as much dietary fiber, more than twice as much potassium, and three times as much magnesium.

With the Unifine Milling process, the result is a texture lighter than traditional wheat flour, but with all the benefits of the whole grain and its natural oils. Unifine flours are ideal for fine-textured breads. Note that Unifine flours require a little more liquid than other flours, because the oil molecule remains intact.

Explore our wide assortment of Unifine milled grains and legumes! You’ll find barley, gluten-free brown rice flour, spelt flour, quinoa flour, certified organic, heirloom wheat pastry flour, and more! No other company produces the variety nor the volume of Unifine flour that Azure does!

Organic
Non-GMO
Kosher
This Unifine flour contains 100% of the bran and germ.

You can grow this ancient grain yourself: Azure sells the grain in 25-lb bags. GR304

Azure Market products are packaged in a facility that meets the Safe Quality Food (SQF) standards which includes an approved allergen control program.

Directions

Unifine pastry flour works magic on a pie pastry. This creates a pie with the perfect flaky pastry that everyone loves!

Perfect Pie Crust: Mix together 2 1/4 cup Unifine pastry flour and 1/2 tsp salt. Warm 2/3 cup coconut oil and 1/3 cup water to make it pourable. Add wet ingredients and stir until just combined. (Don't overmix or the result will be a tougher pastry.) Divide the dough in half, roll between two pieces of parchment paper. Place in two 9" or 10" pie plates for a single crust pie. Or it makes one double crust pie.

Ingredients

organic heirloom soft white wheat berries (CONTAINS WHEAT)

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Azure Market Organics Heirloom Pastry Flour (Unifine), Organic, 27 oz