SALINA, Kan. — A seasoned flour once milled in Salina is back on sale, this time from Kansas State University’s milling program in Manhattan.
The Kansas State University Milling Science program announced on its Facebook page that it will sell Western Star Seasoned Flour during its holiday flour sale. The post said the product “was previously produced by the Western Star Mill in Salina but was discontinued a few years ago,” and that “this year, Kansas State Milling was given the recipe to produce and sell.” The post did not say who provided the recipe.
The program describes the product as “a preseason flour blend with ingredients to help with binding,” and says it “is great for breading meat and thickening gravy.” Product photos in the post show 5-pound bags labeled “Western Star Seasoned Flour,” from the Department of Grain and Food Science.
More than a century of milling in Salina
The Western Star name in Salina dates to at least the early 1890s. A Kansas Historical Society history of Kansas milling says Western Star Mills, a rival of the Salina Mill and Elevator Co., ran 15 double sets of steel rollers and had reached 300 barrels of flour a day by 1892…