A melding of ecology, botany, agriculture, community food systems, and cooking, Berries and Flour uses many uncommon plant crops in our products, some from local farms, fields, and forests. Each of these Midwest plants has its own story to tell!
By teaching how to recognize, harvest, process, grow, and consume more traditional, regional foods, we encourage folks to eat closer to home. This practice is ever so important considering many of the economic, social, and environmental issues we face today.
We readily collaborate with many individuals and organizations toward food accessibility and justice. We do cooking demos, give edible gardening lectures and foraging workshops. Our predominant “store front” is made up of local farmers markets, and our products can be found in our farm store and in regional stores.
Our wholesale commercial kitchen, permitted by IL Department of Public Health, enables us to produce our own value-added products, but also allows Berries and Flour to operate as a small-scale fruit and vegetable processing facility, and offer kitchen rental for other micro food operations. These activities contribute much-needed components of a strong local food system in Central Illinois!
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Thank you for your patronage and support of regional foods and growers!
-Heidi Leuszler (Owner/Head Chef)
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We are a very small business, so we need 8 days to process, schedule, and make your order. We may be able to make things sooner, but please communicate with us before you place an order.
Our webpage is under construction! Apologies for the inconvenience.
Please email berriesandflour@gmail.com for more information!
Cookies, Breakfast & Tea Pastries
Cinnamon & spicebush cinnamon rolls? Chocolate chip hickory nut cookies?
Breakfast and Tea
Harvest Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnamon rolls with maple sugar, a dash of ground spicebush berries, a dram of tart apple or pear syrup and cream cheese icing (8 per order)
Supports 7 small farms
Powdered sugar
20
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Thin glaze
20
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Thick icing
20
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Cream Scones
Light scones made with rich cream. Choose from a variety of flavors. Sold in 8s.
Blackberry
15
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Blueberry
15
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Elderflower
15
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Rose
15
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Pawpaw Rolls
Sweet rolls with a spiral of pawpaw compote and cream cheese icing (8 per order)
Supports 4 small farms
Powdered sugar
20
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Thin glaze
20
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Thick icing
20
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Pawpaw whipped cream
22
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Cookies
Chocolate Chip Nut
Stone ground wheat flour, maple sugar, and your choice of nuts make these cookies even more decadent. We recommend hickory nuts!
1 dozen bite-size
14
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1 dozen
20
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2 dozen
35
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3 dozen
50
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4 dozen
62
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Sugar Cookies
Our sugar cookies have wild flavors! One flavor per dozen. If you would like more than one flavor, please make a separate order.
Lilac
20
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Lemon Rosemary
20
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Lemon Elderflower
20
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Rose
20
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Pine Cookies
A rich butter cookie flavored with pine needles.
16
Gingersnaps
Thin and crispy, our zesty ginger cookies have ground spicebush berries and sorghum.
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Elderdoodles
Our take on traditional snickerdoodles, but purple and rich with elderberries, and a little spicier with spicebush in the sugar coating
23
Thumbprints
Crumbly butter cookie with one of our jam fillings
1 dozen bite-size
14
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1 dozen
20
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