> If you try to simply cook wheat grains, you will end up with a rather nasty porridge
Maybe nasty to modern eaters, but wheat porridge was a staple in Europe, N. Africa, and the Middle East for thousands of years, especially outside of towns where gristmills were far away and often exorbitantly expensive
Maybe nasty to modern eaters, but wheat porridge was a staple in Europe, N. Africa, and the Middle East for thousands of years, especially outside of towns where gristmills were far away and often exorbitantly expensive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frumenty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harees