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Artisan Bread, Don't Need a Wheat Mill, Try It...Mikee Likes It

 
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NO ONE ON YOUTUBE HAS DONE IT, OR HAS POSTED IT.  I've been making, baking and ateing home made artisan bread since baking was invented, HOWEVER, I wanted to make bread without buying flour, and without using a grinding mill on wheat berries.  Sooo....I did it.  I made an artisan loaf using hard red wheat (NOT GROUND INTO FLOUR).  

WHY?  I pretended I was wandering a forest just after the world ended, and was tired of not having bread, and of course as all wanderers do, they carry a small sack of whole wheat berries around their belt, just left of the sword and to the right of a quart Tuppeware container with a lid.

HOW?  Soak the wheat in water.  Depending on temperature, one day or two days later, pour off the water, find a flat stone, put the now-soft-wheat berries on the stone (better if you use the Tupperware) and find another stone and squash the squash out of them.   Modern folks will use their plastic bowl and a tablespoon and squash them until you have a dough ball.  After you have a dough ball, let it sit for 30 minutes, do it again; sit for 30 minutes, do it again, and again, until it is actually dough.  If you've baked bread then you know what to do with the dough.  If not, well, there is youtube for working dough.  Best regards, Tom.
 
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I don't have a hand-cranked mill, so this is interesting to keep in mind if needed, especially for some of my gluten free grains that make gritty flours.
 
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