Life in the kitchen can be a real grind — and, in this case, that’s a good thing. By grinding your own whole-grain flour, you open the door to a new world of tastes and textures, with the added ...

As I’m writing this, I’m stuffing a delicious piece of toast into my face and crunching on it rather happily. That might not seem like a big deal for most people, but for those of us who have to ...

IF you fancied trying your hand at some home-baking but couldn’t find flour anywhere, you can easily make some at home. You might not have realised you can easily whip up the baking essential at home, ...

Here's a 30,000-year-old recipe: Dig up cattails. Remove starchy roots and rhizomes. Peel outer layer, dry, and grind into flour with two rocks. Mix with water and cook. Bon appetit! The mortars are ...

Hunter-gatherers used this stone as a combination pestle and grinder to make flour from oats and other grains, says Marta Mariotti Lippi, a professor of botany at the University of Florence in Italy.

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