Guest guest Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 As an experiment, I bought a big bag of buckwheat (animal feed type). I sprouted some and then roasted it in a 250 oven. Then put it through the blender. I added about 1/4 cup of that to my white flour (rice, potato, tapioca) bread. Wow! It makes the bread somewhat heavier, nutty tasting ... kind of like whole grain bread only better! The buckwheat itself has a very hard shell ... I think for normal eating you need to buy the " groats " which they sell at the market (no shell). Once it is roasted though, the shell gets crispy and they are pretty tastey, but the shell kind of gets stuck in your throat sometimes. Ground up though, they make a nice additive! My original idea is try try making malt from them. The sproated roasted buckwheat does NOT taste like malt, but it is very toasty and I think would make a fine beer taste. I don't know if it is sweet enough to grow yeast in tho ... that's another experiment ... Also you can plant them as a cover crop, which I'm going to try next. -- Heidi Jean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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