Making flour in ancient Egypt
Ready for more? This is what it took to make flour from emmer wheat in the period between about 1600 and 1100 BC in Egypt. Take uncleaned spikelets of wheat…
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Grinding versus pounding. Hands up. Who can really say what grist, pottage, meal, flour, gruel, and dozens of other words meant in the past? Well, I can’t either, at least…
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