Last week, we were fortunate enough to get more wheat berries at our CSA pickup.  As you can see in the photo, we get two different varieties mixed together.  I haven’t the foggiest idea what specific types they are, but I decided to try a bit of alchemy and see if they could be made into a loaf of bread for this week’s Dark Days Challenge meal.

As you can see, the first essential step is separating bits of chaff and plant matter from the wheat berries, since we get little baggies of wheat that’s a bit rough around the edges.  It’s a pretty fast sort on a countertop.  Once everything was sorted, I put the wheat in my mighty Vitamix blender.  Using the dry blade, I ground it into flour in about a minute.  (I love me some Vitamix.)  After digging up a new recipe in Rose Levy Beranbaum’s The Bread Bible, I was ready to go.

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