Just to be totally clear, you don’t have to use a Botanical Blend. You can use a good-quality, shop-bought stoneground flour in place of any of the Botanical Blends used in our BALM recipes (with the exception of Blend No. 10, which is a bean flour and behaves differently).
We don’t force people to bake with botanical blend flour. It might be that pole are just starting to bake, and making such a radical change is too much early on in their journey towards learning to bake sourdough. Don’t worry – I am not going to turn up in your kitchen and tell you off for not wanting to use a Botanical Blend in your bread! However, learning to bake as lifestyle medicine is about reevaluating your approach to your bread. It’s my belief that redefining flour is integral to the process of creating breads that nourish the gut microbiome, so I hope you will consider this approach.
