Four years ago my sister and I started our Micro b Four years ago my sister and I started our Micro bakery called The Flour Barn.  We turned a barn on our family farm into a commercial kitchen and started with one product, Cinnamon Rolls. As we got more and more orders we added more and more products. As we sold more products we could afford better equipment, than employees, slowly creating the bakery we always dreamed of....

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/how-to-make-money-from-your-micro-bakery-at-home/
Garden Season is among us! Tomatoes are starting t Garden Season is among us! Tomatoes are starting to turn, sweet corn is ready to harvest and we are so excited! For years our family has a had a big garden that we not only enjoy for the summer, but that we preserve for the whole year! It is such a treat to be able to have fresh tasting sweet corn in the middle of December, or delicious marinara for Stromboli. 

We have a few openings in tonights Sweet Corn Harvest dinner class as well as in our Harvest dinner class in a couple weeks. We also have several blog articles you can check out to help you utilize your garden!

To sign up for a class:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site/shop/class/9?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc

How to preserve tomatoes:

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/how-to-make-the-best-homemade-roasted-tomato-sauce/

How to make delicious Zucchini bread:

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/whole-wheat-zucchini-bread-recipe/
We are back this week Friday 8-12 and Saturday 8-1 We are back this week Friday 8-12 and Saturday 8-11! We are so excited to get back to baking💕 Make sure to place your orders for Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls, Focaccia Breakfast Sandwiches and more! See you soon☺️🥰😱💕

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

To check out our blog:

Theflourbarnhomestead.com

Our address:
The Flour Barn
17200 Kandel rd Marysville
Although we are closed this Saturday, we do still Although we are closed this Saturday, we do still have a few classes available for this summer! We have a Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner coming up next week as well as another amazing Harvest dinner in a couple weeks🥰 For more information check out the link below…

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
The Flour Barn Bakery will open tomorrow 8-11! Ras The Flour Barn Bakery will open tomorrow 8-11! Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls, Caprese Sandwiches, and an Iced White Chocolate Blackberry Latte are all perfect on a beautiful summer day! We also will be selling fresh flowers from heritagefarm and sweet corn from Muddy Pike Pumpkins and Produce! 

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

Tomorrows case:
- Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls
- Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls 
- Honey Buns
- Key Lime Pie Bars
- Strawberry Cream Croissants 
- Various Danish
- Ham and Cheese Croissants
- Cosmic Jumbo Brownies 
- Ham and Cheddar Quiche
- Maple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich
- Focaccia Bacon Breakfast Sandwich 
- Summer Berry Cheesecake Bars
- Sourdough Loaves
- Oatmeal Cream Pies
- Lemon Blueberry Scones
- Cold Brew
- Various Lattes 
- Chai Latte
- Hemisphere Coffee
The Flour Pot is open today 8-1! Stop by for some The Flour Pot is open today 8-1! Stop by for some coffee and cinnamon rolls😍
Throwback Flavor: Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls! This Throwback Flavor: Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls! This was one of our first specialty rolls 4 years ago😱 It feels like just yesterday we started selling our Cinnamon Rolls out of the barn💕 Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls and Caprese Sandwiches are both available for preorder for a limited time! 

To preorder: 

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
Check out our website to get this delicious Zucchi Check out our website to get this delicious Zucchini bread recipe! When baking at home I try to use as much freshly milled whole wheat flour as I can. It’s how I justify the amount of bread my son eats… 

Link in bio or go to theflourbarnhomestead.com to find all our favorite recipes!
The only thing we love more than making sourdough The only thing we love more than making sourdough is sharing it! We sell our sourdough bread every Friday and Saturday at our little bakery on our family farm. 

We also teach a class on sourdough bread baking every month! Link to order our bread or sign up for one of our classes is in our bio.

#sourdough #microbakery #microbakerylife #sourdoughbread #sourdoughbreadbaking #homesteading #sourdoughbakery #ohiobakery
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Best Cookbooks for Beginners

I love a good cookbook, I believe in cookbooks and the all-time best cookbooks are the ones that, not only taught me a recipe that I can pull out from time to time, but have taught me skills that I now use over and over. The best cookbooks for beginners are those that share knowledge and allow you to utilize that knowledge far beyond the boundaries of its pages. When I get a new cookbook I want to be able to sit down on the couch with a cup of coffee and read it straight through like a novel. The best ones have stories, beginnings, middles and ends and before I start pulling out measuring cups, I want to know the end of the story.

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The Best Cookbooks have worn edges!

The five books that make up this list make a solid foundation to any “best cookbook” collection. Each is well written by an interesting author with a great story and a unique take on food. Grease stains and dough color the pages of recipes I turn to time and time again. Yes, the internet is full of new recipes at your fingertips. But I prefer to lay open solid pages that won’t time out on me, and go to work.

Bouchon Bakery by Thomas Keller

The first on my list of best cookbooks for beginners is personal for me. When I first graduated college and started my job as a nurse, I moved into my apartment, living by myself for the first time. With newfound freedom and no idea what to do with it, I remember walking to a Barnes and Noble down the street to kill time. Their cooking section is amazing. That day I picked up a copy of Bouchon and started skimming. Actually, I read quite a bit sitting there on the floor of Barnes and Noble.

I read about weighing ingredients, something I hadn’t heard of at the time. Now, it’s the only way I bake. Many of the bread recipes now frequently make their way onto my dinner table, but the book also showed French pastries I’d never heard of. After buying the book I purchased a cooking scale and started baking. On my nights off in my new apartment I learned to laminate dough. I learned that I loved scones. Most of all, I learned how much love and time can go into baking and I wanted it to become my life!

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime by Ree Drummond

Image of the Cookbook The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime
Second on the list of “Best cookbooks for Beginners.”

Each of The Pioneer Woman’s cookbooks have been on my Christmas list the year it came out ever since she first published. But Dinnertime is my favorite of the bunch because it really does put dinner on my table the most frequently. When you’re first learning to cook there is no better teacher than Ree. Sometimes I want to know exactly what translucent onions look like, or how brown a seared steak is supposed to be. Each of The Pioneer Woman Cookbooks contains step by step instructions to help guide you through the recipes.

When I first got married and was trying out new dishes, I would read a new recipe and get so confused by the directions. I didn’t know what it meant to make a roux, or reduce a sauce by half. The step-by-step pictures are so useful when you need a little reassurance, a “hooray! you’re doing great!” Best of all, it’s such a fun read! With a little bit of farm life and some cowboys thrown in, it’s a book you’ll flip through time and time again.

The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart

Image of "The Bread Baker's Apprentice" Cookbook
A wonderful read for anyone who wants to better understand bread.

If you really want to understand bread baking, this book has so much information. I love the detailed pictures of stretching and folding and shaping the dough. The book contains many recipes suitable for all of your bread needs. However, I would recommend starting with one dough and making it over and over again. They say you don’t really understand a book until you read it five times. I feel the same about a recipe, especially when it comes to bread. Take some time to get a feel for the dough. Make it over and over. See if it turns out the same, a little different, a little better each time and figure out why. Now, I think it’s so tempting to try to bake your way through a cookbook but that’s not how you really learn the intricacies. Don’t just skim the surface. This cookbook has so much knowledge to relay and is worth diving into.

Mastering Pasta by Marc Vetri

Best cookbook for beginners pasta making

While relatively new to my collection, Mastering Pasta quickly climbed to my list of best cookbooks. I love how the author explains pasta’s deep roots while also encouraging you to experiment. This book first sparked the idea that I could use fresh milled flour to make a healthy and hearty staple that my family would love. While the basic pasta recipe is simple and easy to get started with, there is so much depth in the different recipes. Vetri shares his knowledge of flour and the important role it plays in our nutrition. It never ceases to amaze me how such simple ingredients in expert hands can take on such life.

The All-Time Best Cookbook for Beginners: The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman

The Best Cookbook to Gift!

This is the book that showed me how much I love Latkes. Introduced me to the homemade granola bars that are a staple in our freezer. Led me to make the most decadent sandwich I’ve ever eaten. This is my favorite cookbook, and one of the best cookbooks for beginners. In my humble opinion, I think she’s a genius. Although her recipes are rarely simple and often require a special trip to the grocery, they are full of smart combinations and cooking techniques that really work. I love it when I can take skills I’ve learned in one recipe and apply them to my daily cooking. This book is full of such techniques, and Deb does a wonderful job of spelling them out.

Learning from The Best Cookbooks for Beginners, and the Best People.

Ultimately, I’ve learned the most from time spent watching my mom fix dinners from scratch, or calling her up at 3:00 because I had planned a meal I had no idea how to make! She has inspired me to love food and to constantly seek out how to make it a little better, a little more nourishing, a little more satisfying. For me, my favorite cookbooks help us along on our mission. Ultimately, they make the journey a little more fun.

Ellen is a mom of three and an experienced baker. After decorating wedding cakes for many years, her dream of opening a bakery came true. This bakery allowed her to experiment with her love of wholesome bread, fresh ingredients and creative flavors. The Flour Barn bakery has always been centered around allowing her and her sister to be full time moms, and part time bakers; perfectly mixing their two passions.

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Four years ago my sister and I started our Micro b Four years ago my sister and I started our Micro bakery called The Flour Barn.  We turned a barn on our family farm into a commercial kitchen and started with one product, Cinnamon Rolls. As we got more and more orders we added more and more products. As we sold more products we could afford better equipment, than employees, slowly creating the bakery we always dreamed of....

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/how-to-make-money-from-your-micro-bakery-at-home/
Garden Season is among us! Tomatoes are starting t Garden Season is among us! Tomatoes are starting to turn, sweet corn is ready to harvest and we are so excited! For years our family has a had a big garden that we not only enjoy for the summer, but that we preserve for the whole year! It is such a treat to be able to have fresh tasting sweet corn in the middle of December, or delicious marinara for Stromboli. 

We have a few openings in tonights Sweet Corn Harvest dinner class as well as in our Harvest dinner class in a couple weeks. We also have several blog articles you can check out to help you utilize your garden!

To sign up for a class:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site/shop/class/9?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc

How to preserve tomatoes:

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/how-to-make-the-best-homemade-roasted-tomato-sauce/

How to make delicious Zucchini bread:

https://theflourbarnhomestead.com/whole-wheat-zucchini-bread-recipe/
We are back this week Friday 8-12 and Saturday 8-1 We are back this week Friday 8-12 and Saturday 8-11! We are so excited to get back to baking💕 Make sure to place your orders for Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls, Focaccia Breakfast Sandwiches and more! See you soon☺️🥰😱💕

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

To check out our blog:

Theflourbarnhomestead.com

Our address:
The Flour Barn
17200 Kandel rd Marysville
Although we are closed this Saturday, we do still Although we are closed this Saturday, we do still have a few classes available for this summer! We have a Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner coming up next week as well as another amazing Harvest dinner in a couple weeks🥰 For more information check out the link below…

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
The Flour Barn Bakery will open tomorrow 8-11! Ras The Flour Barn Bakery will open tomorrow 8-11! Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls, Caprese Sandwiches, and an Iced White Chocolate Blackberry Latte are all perfect on a beautiful summer day! We also will be selling fresh flowers from heritagefarm and sweet corn from Muddy Pike Pumpkins and Produce! 

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

Tomorrows case:
- Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls
- Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls 
- Honey Buns
- Key Lime Pie Bars
- Strawberry Cream Croissants 
- Various Danish
- Ham and Cheese Croissants
- Cosmic Jumbo Brownies 
- Ham and Cheddar Quiche
- Maple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich
- Focaccia Bacon Breakfast Sandwich 
- Summer Berry Cheesecake Bars
- Sourdough Loaves
- Oatmeal Cream Pies
- Lemon Blueberry Scones
- Cold Brew
- Various Lattes 
- Chai Latte
- Hemisphere Coffee
The Flour Pot is open today 8-1! Stop by for some The Flour Pot is open today 8-1! Stop by for some coffee and cinnamon rolls😍
Throwback Flavor: Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls! This Throwback Flavor: Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls! This was one of our first specialty rolls 4 years ago😱 It feels like just yesterday we started selling our Cinnamon Rolls out of the barn💕 Raspberry Cheesecake Rolls and Caprese Sandwiches are both available for preorder for a limited time! 

To preorder: 

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
Check out our website to get this delicious Zucchi Check out our website to get this delicious Zucchini bread recipe! When baking at home I try to use as much freshly milled whole wheat flour as I can. It’s how I justify the amount of bread my son eats… 

Link in bio or go to theflourbarnhomestead.com to find all our favorite recipes!
The only thing we love more than making sourdough The only thing we love more than making sourdough is sharing it! We sell our sourdough bread every Friday and Saturday at our little bakery on our family farm. 

We also teach a class on sourdough bread baking every month! Link to order our bread or sign up for one of our classes is in our bio.

#sourdough #microbakery #microbakerylife #sourdoughbread #sourdoughbreadbaking #homesteading #sourdoughbakery #ohiobakery
Never gets old… Never gets old…
The Flour Barn Bakery will be open this week Frida The Flour Barn Bakery will be open this week Friday 8-1 and Saturday 8-11! You can go ahead and preorder favorites like our Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls, Cream Filled Croissants and our Focaccia Breakfast Sandwiches! 

Address:
The Flour Barn
17200 Kandel Rd Marysville 

To Preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site
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Saturday morning breakfast at The Flour Barn Baker Saturday morning breakfast at The Flour Barn Bakery, what could be better?! Our special Peach Cobbler Rolls are still here for a limited time, as well as our delicious Summer Berry Cheesecake Bars😍 Full case list below…

To get the full Flour Barn experience, grab a Blackberry White Chocolate Latte and a pack of Jumbo Cinnamon rolls while you take in the country air🥰  We recommend preordering Peach Cobbler rolls, Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls and Focaccia Breakfast Sandwiches!

To preorder:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site

Tomorrows case:
- Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls
- Peach Cobbler Rolls
- Honey Buns
- Key Lime Pie Bars
- Strawberry Cream Croissants 
- Various Danish
- Ham and Cheese Croissants
- Cosmic Jumbo Brownies 
- Ham and Cheddar Quiche
- Maple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich
- Focaccia Bacon Breakfast Sandwich 
- Summer Berry Cheesecake Bars
- Sourdough Loaves
- Oatmeal Cream Pies
- Lemon Blueberry Scones
- Cold Brew
- Various Lattes 
- Chai Latte
- Hemisphere Coffee
Open today 8-1! Get a delicious coffee and a break Open today 8-1! Get a delicious coffee and a breakfast sandwich! Or some Jumbo Cinnamon Rolls and Sourdough bread. Ordering will be inside due to weather. See you soon☺️
Our Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner Class was so fun and Our Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner Class was so fun and delicious. Together we learned to make several dishes using farm fresh sweet corn, and then we sat down and enjoyed the delicious meal together💕

To sign up for our next Harvest Series class:

https://the-flour-barn.square.site/shop/class/9?page=1&limit=30&sort_by=category_order&sort_order=asc
A delicious Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner Class💕 We A delicious Sweet Corn Harvest Dinner Class💕 We learned how to make so many amazing sweet corn recipes and then sat done and enjoyed each of them with some freshly baked sourdough😍 Still spots left in Augusts class!

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