Food and Food Storage Forum
Expedient wheat cooking and giving some wheat away
* What is the SIMPLEST use of wheat? Joe Jeffries 11/03/97
* Simple recipes needed Rob Geneva 11/03/97
* Basic Storage Food Recipes Kyla Jones 11/06/97
* Go to Cook'in ... Al Durtschi 11/07/97
* Survival Recipes SheJohnson 11/04/97
* What a great idea... Al Durtschi 11/05/97
* Making bulgur Al Durtschi 11/05/97
* Wheat Sprouts Meatballs Al Durtschi 11/07/97
* Basic Tomato Bulgur Casserole Al Durtschi 11/11/97
* Basic Tuna Bulgur Casserole Al Durtschi 11/11/97
* Kurt Saxton's 3.3 cent breakfast. Al Durtschi 11/07/97
* Cooking Wheat and other Grains Kyla Jones 11/06/97
* expedient grinding (long) Greg McMullan 11/04/97
* Farina M. Chandler 11/07/97

Date: November 03, 1997 02:25 PM
Author: Joe Jeffries (joejeffries@hotmail.com)
Subject: What is the SIMPLEST use of wheat?

I'd like to float an idea and ask a question --

This idea is not for everyone but if your understanding of the the tithe permits (the tithe in the OLD TESTAMENT was often a STOREHOUSE of grain) then maybe we should go for it.

Take your tithe each month, order as many buckets of wheat as you can, and one by one make sure that every family in your congregation gets one.

Ideally, you would donate the buckets to the church and they could see to it that over time everyone got one.

You could arrange for all this to happen anonymously through a local attorney if you wanted to.

Ideally every family would get a bucket of wheat and a bag of wheat to practice with. And a sheet of instructions -- more on this below.

I realize that for each family that receives a bucket this is not the total-life preparation that some of us are trying to achieve. But it is not hard to imagine scenarios where even just one bucket could tide a family over in an emergency while trying to make adjustments to the new situation.

It could keep you from being flooded by hard-to-turn-down entreaties when the problem hits.

It is a terrific capital-base from which a church could try to build after y2k. Face it. Most will not prepare but you could do this little bit for everyone.

So, here is the question (We love you, Al, and thank you for all your help here and in your business.)

Since people receiving these buckets aren't learning the way we are we need to provide a SIMPLE instruction sheet for how to use this raw wheat in an emergency.

So, Al, and any others, are there three "recipes" we could incluse for eating the wheat, as follows:

1. A SIMPLE way to sprout, cook and eat the sprouts for a vegetable and vitamin C.

2. A SIMPLE way to eat the raw whole wheat -- they won't have a grinder! Some kind of cooked cereal?? Soak overnight and cook??

3. A SIMPLE way to grind it -- say, with a hammer? Then what? Mush? Hot cereal? What?

Believe me if they can't make bread starting with raw whole wheat now, they won't be able to then! So we need to forget bread and find some other ways to eat this wheat.

OR, WOULD WHITE RICE BUCKETS BE BETTER??? Most people have sokme inkling how to use rice.

Who wants to contribute to my SIMPLE WHEAT INSTRUCTIONS request?

Hey, did it ever occur to you that Gary North probably lurks these forums, even though we never see his name on posts?? Did it ever occur to you that we might read his posts *everyday* under another name? Did it ever occur to you that even *I* might be Gary North? Just kidding, I'm not, but I bet one of the regulars is!! And since I bet Gary North will read this I'd like to say --

Man, Gary, thank you! I have for decades availed myself of your life-product and I want to say thanks for IT ALL. Some you have made money on and I am GLAD to have the opportunity to give you money in a free market exchange -- like many, many books and the Remnant Review. Some has been FREE, born of your dedication to what you believe and what you are trying to accomplish -- like your free books on your other site -- I have printed out, and read many of them.

But now, THESE FORUMS!!! These are your best free service ever and I guarantee you, you are saving lives here, and building the Kingdom here. You should take HUGE satisfaction from what you are accomplishing, and how you are helping us, by offering this service, and for free, no less! Well, I am convinced that even though you earn no treasure from me through this forum that God is adding to your account daily and you will come into a reward for this in heaven. Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Jesus wept over Lazarus. Jesus cares for his people. And you act out His care for us by helping us get ready.

GARY NORTH, THANK YOU.

-Joe

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Date: November 04, 1997 01:38 PM
Author: Greg McMullan (mcmullan@alum.mit.edu)
Subject: expedient grinding (long)

Dr. Jeffries proposes helping create simple instructions and the kernel of a stockpile for others, which is a *wonderful* idea. One of the things that he asks is if it is possible to grind wheat with some tool other than a grinder. Cresson Kearny's book "Nuclear War Survival Skills" discusses this in rather great detail, and includes directions for making an expedient grinding device from three pieces of pipe, some rope, and a can. Presumably, a hammer could be used as well, and many other items. I will include at the end of this message the relevant portion from the electronic edition of the book. The electronic edition is handy for searching and copying, like this, but has lost the different typefaces that distinguish the original text (no copyright due to being a work for hire of a National lab of the US government) and the additions that Kearny made, which he copyrights but allows free distribution of if one includes the next paragraph in the reproduction.

Copyright (c) 1986 by Cresson H. Kearny Cresson H. Kearny's additions to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory original 1979 edition are the only parts cov- ered by this copyright, and are printed in this type print to distinguish these additions from the original uncopyrighted parts. The uncopyrighted parts are printed in a different type of print (like this). No part of the added copyrighted parts (except brief passages that a reviewer may quote in a review) may be re- produced in any form unless the reproduced material includes the following two sentences: Copyright (c) 1986 by Cresson H. Kearny. The copyrighted material may be reproduced without obtaining permission from anyone, pro- vided: (1) all copyrighted material is reproduced full-scale (except for microfiche reproductions), and (2) the part of this copyright notice within quotation marks is printed along with the copyrighted material."

BEGIN QUOTE FROM "NUCLEAR WAR SURVIVAL SKILLS"

IMPROVISED GRAIN MILL

The grain mill described can efficiently pound whole-grain wheat, corn, etc., into meal and flour thereby greatly improving digestibility and avoiding the diarrhea and sore mouths that would result from eating large quantities of un- ground grain.

TO BUILD:

(1)Cut 3 lengths of pipe, each 30 inches long; 3/4-inch-diameter steel pipe (such as ordinary water pipe) is best.

(2)Cut the working ends of the pipe off squarely. Remove all roughness, leaving the full-wall thickness. Each working end should have the full diameter of the pipe.

(3)In preparation for binding the three pieces of pipe together into a firm bundle, encircle each piece of pipe with cushioning, slip-preventing tape, string or cloth in the locations illustrated.

(4)Tape or otherwise bind the 3 pipes into a secure bundle so that their working ends are as even as possible and are in the same plane resting evenly on a flat surface.

(5)Cut the top smoothly out of a large can. A 4-inch-diameter, 7-inch-high fruit-juice can is ideal. If you do not have a can, improvise something to keep grain together while pounding it.

Fig. ORNL-DWO 73-11449 (Illustration) (nw077.tif)

TO MAKE MEAL AND FLOUR:

(1)Put clean, dry grain ONE INCH DEEP in the can.

(2)To prevent blistering your hands, wear gloves, or wrap cloth around the upper part of the bundle of pipes.

(3)Place the can (or open-ended cylinder) on a hard, smooth, solid surface, such as concrete.

(4)To pound the grain, sit with the can held between your feet. Move the bundle of pipes straight up and down about 3 inches, with a rapid stroke.

(5)If the can is 4 inches in diameter, in 4 minutes you should be able to pound 1-1/2 lb. (one cup) of whole-kernel wheat into 1/5 lb. of fine meal and flour, and 3/10 lb. of coarse meal and fine-cracked wheat.

(6)To separate the pounded grain into fine meal, flour, coarse meal, and fine-cracked wheat, use a sieve made of window screen.

(7)To separate flour for feeding small children, place some pounded grain in an 18 X 18-inch piece of fine nylon net, gather the edges of the net together so as to hold the grain, and shake this bag-like container.

(8)To make flour fine enough for babies, pound fine meal and coarse flour still finer, and sieve it through a piece of cheesecloth or similar material.

As soon as fallout decay permits travel, the grain-grinding machines on tens of thousands of hog and cattle farms should be used for milling grain for survivors. It is vitally important to national recovery and individual survival to get back as soon as possible to labor-saving, mechanized ways of doing essential work.

In an ORNL experiment, a farmer used a John Deere Grinder-Mixer powered by a 100-hp tractor to grind large samples of wheat and barley. When it is used to grind rather coarse meal for hogs, this machine is rated at 12 tons per hour. Set to grind a finer meal-flour mixture for human consumption, it ground both hard wheat and feed barley at a rate of about 9 tons per hour. This is 2400 times as fast as using muscle power to operate even the best expedient grain mill. With its finest screen installed, this large machine can produce about 3 tons of whole wheat flour per hour. Unlike wheat and corn, the kernels of barley, grain sorghums, and oats have rough, fibrous hulls that must be removed from the digestible parts to produce an acceptable food. Moistening the grain will toughen such hulls and make them easier to remove. If the grain is promptly pounded or ground into meal, the toughened hulls will break into larger pieces than will the hulls of undampened grain. A small amount of water, weighing about 2% of the weight of the grain, should be used to dampen the grain. For 3 pounds of grain (about 6 cups), sprinkle with about one ounce (28 grams, or about 2 tablespoons) of water, while stirring constantly to moisten all the kernels. After about 5 minutes of stirring, the grain will appear dry. The small amount of water will have dampened and toughened the hulls, but the ed- ible parts- inside will have remained dry. Larger pieces of hull are easier to remove after grinding than smaller pieces.

One way to remove ground-up hulls from meal is by flotation. Put some of the meal-hulls mixture about 1 inch deep in a pan or pot, cover the mixture with water, and stir. Skim off the floating hulls, then pour off the water and more hulls. Sunken pieces of hulls that settle on top of the heavier meal can be removed with one's fingers as the last of the water is poured off. To produce a barley meal good for very small children, the small pieces of hulls must again be separated by flotation. Figure 9.1 illustrates sieving fine, dry barleymeal and the smaller pieces of hulls from the coarser meal and the larger pieces. The sieve was a piece of window screen that measured inches before its sides were folded up and form an open-topped box.

(Illustration)Fig. 9.1. Sieving ground barley through a windowscreen sieve.

To lessen their laxative effects, all grains should be ground as finely as possible, and most of the hulls should be removed. Grains also will be digested more easily if they are finely ground. The occupants of crowded shelters should be especially careful to avoid foods that cause diarrhea.

END QUOTE FROM "NUCLEAR WAR SURVIVAL SKILLS"

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Date: November 07, 1997 08:08 AM
Author: M. Chandler (ka61@juno.com)
Subject: Farina

Does anyone know how Farina is made?

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