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What is stone ground flour

Stone-ground flour is a type of rice flour with a lighter flavor but high nutritional value. Stone Ground Flour is made from rice, which needs to be ground by hand to make a pulp, then poured into a steamer basket of gauze to be steamed, and then made into Stone Ground Flour.

Stone-ground flour is relatively simple to make and can be made at home by yourself, but if you are not a professional, you may fail the first time you make stone-ground flour. The process of making stone-ground flour requires five steps, soaking, grinding, fumigating, drying and folding, which are indispensable.

First, soak the rice for a period of time, about how long it takes, according to the amount of rice you soak, if more, you need to soak for more than 3 hours, and then grind it into a pulp with a stone mill, put the rice pulp into the dustpan to fumigate, and then remove the steamed flour film to dry it on a bamboo pole, and then finally fold the cooled flour film, so that the production of the stone milling powder is completed.

The stone-ground flour can be made into rice noodles for consumption, and Yunnan rice noodles are made of stone-ground flour. In addition, the production of stone grinding powder need to use equipment, if it is home or commercial small steel mill to grind out the stone grinding powder is very difficult, it is best to use the kind of traditional Chinese medicine store grinding stone powder equipment.