Question for Soutwestern Ontario Loafers

It depends on where you live. The best way to find mills is search for ones in your area (one suggestion is Arva Flour Mill near London). At the moment I use Meunerie Milanaise flour, and find it to be a fairly reliable/good quality flour (you may be able to find it in a local health food/organic store).

Seth

I am in St Catharines and I get my flour from Costco, 10 k bag,,, some times it's Bakers flour some times Robin Hood AP. some times if I am lucky Duncan Hinds AP....

The only thing I get Oak Manor is whipping cream,,, yummy/ I buy organic hard wheat berries to mill for whole wheat , get it health food.   qahtan

is about 5 minutes drive away from me.  I think that their flour is overrated, they don't sieve it enough and it has a lot of husk/particles in it.

I've used about 260kg of Bakers Hood/Dover flour purchased from Costco.  It costs about $11.99 per 20kg and is very good value.  Arva is about $22 per 20kg.

Perhaps the flour is overrated (at Arva), or rather over priced for the quality. I have never used it other than in a restaurant, but it was of fair quality the times I had. I suggest to try as many types of flour as possible, then decide for yourself- based on quality vs. price.

Seth

"Robin Hood Best For Bread Homestyle White Flour" is what I use and I'm happy with the results. I normally pay $9.99 for 5K and before Christmas I found it for $6.99 (at my local Longos) so I stocked up. I see now it's gone up a few $$ in 2010 so if anyone knows of a better price please pass it on :)

Jackie.

I had assumed the Robin hood best for bread flour was unbleached. Now I've done some more reading I see that isn't the case.

Is there a source for (bulk, or at least 10lb bags) unbleached bread flour in SouthWestern Ontario?

There are several sources that you can try.  Bedells will sell bulk to the public, although their 40kg bags of unb flour were expensive.

Arva sells 22.5kg bags of flour for about $22 now.

I've heard that Dover mills in Cambridge may sell direct as well.

I'll be speaking to a rep from Dawn Foods today in hopes of securing a bulk order of KA flour.

Depending on where you live exactly, but another option is Oak Manor Farms (near Tavistock). If you live near Toronto there are a couple places with Meunerie Milanaise products (good quality, I find) - I buy them in various weights/types from The Sweet Potato. As mentioned before, if you know someone in the cooking/baking business, ask whether you can get them to order product for you.

Seth