first off im curious to see how many other's here may do this?
I picked up a coffee grinder a little while ago originally just to do my own flax meal which I consume about 2lbs+/wk of so I figured pick this up and grind my own so it's always fresh and I know exactly what it hasn't been put through. So with the great results I've had with the flax I decided to make some Ezekiel style flat breads this morning. Check out this recipe
equal portions of
raw sunflower kernels
whole golden flax seeds
hard red wheat berries
whole millet
whole corn
long grain raw brown rice
whole dried red and green lentils
whole grain spelt
whole unhulled barley
milk
olive oil
an egg
succanat for sweetener
xanthan gum
redmond pink sea salt
put all grains into coffee gruinder and let it fly, it came out as fine and easy to work with as anything you could buy in a bag, mixed it all up with the wet and sugar and cooked it up like pancakes. not only did they taste awesome but look at the variety of grains and nutritional profile not mention fiber and protein content
Since you are all about being natural and detest artificial means, you should ditch the grinder and use a stone mortar and pestle. The grains of stone in the flour will add minerals to your diet and make you a faster sprinter.
"And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them." Ezekiel 4:12-13
Is this the same dude who talked about eating bread because supposedly in Ezekiel some guy lived 200 days off of bread?
buddy that was in a conversation from some nutjob that said "bread is bad for you" and I used Ezekiel as an example that if made properly ie not 99% white flour you can subsist solely on it
and i cook it on a stove not over anyone's excrement
i'm not gonna spend crazy money on fancy stone grind hand powered mills. anything i grind up myself from a raw whole grain will be 10000000 times better than white flour and still much better and fresher than any bagged specialty flour not to mention a ton cheaper.and the cuisinart coffee grinder was free
It actually tastes awesome and not even the I'm going to choke it down cuz it's great for me and I will eventually learn to enjoy it, it genuinely tastes very good.
We have a ridiculous Baracuda filter here, it's just nuts it blocks almost everything that isn't categorized.
What would be effected using stone grinding vs a coffee grinder?
Well, stone grinding is more natural so its obviously better. Cro-magnon's did not have blenders but they had stone which gave them superhuman strength. Once they invented coffee grinders is when homosapiens came about and so we got weaker because we werent getting the natural stone ground flours that gave us such tremendous strength and sprinting speed.
Bleaching agents did not come into use without opposition. A 1954 issue of the National Police Gazette, reports that, Harvey W. Wiley, Chief of the Food and Drug Administration early this century, won a Supreme Court decision outlawing bleaches, but he Was forced out of the FDA, and the Supreme Court order was bypassed through administrative actions. The approval of chlorine dioxide as a bleaching agent was not without protests by U.S. Army nutrition experts (Rorty, 1954).
Another example of the FDA keeping our food safe at the expense of profit.
It's amazing the looks you get from people when you explain how you make bread by grinding your own flour and such like your some kind of abnormal weirdo...then try a piece and are amazed at how good it is.
they have a sprouted grains bread but not all of their stuff is all sprouted grain. id be curious to know how you make a bread from only sprouted grain and absolutely no flour
and im sure Ezekiel himself didn't use sprouted grains
I guess it depends on the conditions that grain was kept at back then. Personally I think that keeping moisture out of the grain was probably a lot harder than it is now so that a great deal of the grain would have been sprouted.
It's really only with recent advances that we can strip grain of it's husk and it's bran and germ layers using only the endosperm to get that starch product.
The wheat industry watches very closely for sprouted kernels since it changes the end product considerably but it still happens even now.
so yea I'm thinking Ezekiel used sprouted grain and that bread could probably have been used as weaponry back then..
as for how do you make bread out of sprouted grains I think it's pretty easy as bread is really just a cooked clump of grain.
I think it's important to remember though that sprouted grain bread isn't comparable to the processed flour product we call bread today and is a lot more dense.
When you sprout the grain it becomes a vegetable and is no longer a seed.(seeds are mostly indigestible)
Which is why it's more digestible, has a much higher protein content, a lower GI and there is no need to "enrich" it since all the good stuff isn't stripped out.