Intro to Wheat Montana Grains
that we can purchase in our bulk order
Prairie Gold Wheat Berries - Hard White Spring Wheat; 15-16% protein, 9-10% moisture. This wheat is recommended for beginning bread bakers and those with families who love store-bought loaf bread. It is a great all-round wheat and can be used for everything, although desserts and cookies will be a bit denser than those to which people are accustomed.
Bronze Chief Wheat Berries - Hard Red Spring Wheat; 15-16% protein,-10% moisture. This wheat makes an excellent bread and is equivalent in quality to Prairie Gold. It has a more wheaty taste and is a little browner.
Hard Red Winter Wheat - 15-16% protein, 9-10% moisture. Hard Red makes a denser, more wheaty bread. It is excellent for pancakes.
Oat Groats - these are good for oatmeal, granola, and adding to breads and desserts. This is basically the oat before it is rolled/flaked to be made into "rolled oats." Cannot be stored more than a year unless in a freezer because these are considered cracked grains.
Whole 7-Grain Mix - good for bread, granola. Includes the following 7 grains: hard wheat, soft wheat, triticale, rye, oats, pearled barley, spelt. Note that even though this is advertised as "whole" grain mix, it includes cracked grains (oats, pearled barley) and thus will have a shelf life of a year or less unless stored in the freezer.
7-Grain Cereal - the flaked form of the Whole 7-Grain Mix.
Pinto Beans - good for long-term storage, can be used for side dish, dips, chili, etc. Pinto beans are very high in protein and are very nutritious.
11 Bean/Pea Mix - includes lentils, whole green peas, split yellow & green peas, black-eyed peas, baby limas, pintos, small white and small red navy beans, black turtle & pink beans. Use for soups, salads, side dishes.
Brown and Golden Flax Seed - source of Omega 3, fiber, protein, lignans; can be added to bread for higher nutrition. Note: use coffee mill to grind. It will "gum up" a grain mill - do not grind in your grain mill. Storage life is two years or more if stored in a stable environment out of sunlight. The two are nutritionally very similar although some prefer the golden over the brown for taste.
Kamut is a close relative to wheat. Its about the same shape as a wheat seed but a Kamut kernel is more than twice as big. Even though Kamut is very closely related to wheat, many people who are wheat intolerant can eat Kamut with no problems. Kamut also has some pretty amazing nutritional strengths. And as an amazingly versatile grain, Kamut can be used in place of all the different wheats; the hard and soft varieties and also durum wheat.
Spelt Berries - Spelt is an ancient grain that traces its heritage back long before many wheat hybrids. Many of its benefits come from the fact that it offers a broader spectrum of nutrients compared to many of its more inbred cousins in the wheat family. It can be used in many of the same ways as wheat including bread and pasta making. Spelt does not seem to cause sensitivities in many people who are intolerant of wheat.
Long Grain Brown Rice - The process that produces brown rice removes only the outermost layer, the hull, of the rice kernel and is the least damaging to its nutritional value. The complete milling and polishing that converts brown rice into white rice destroys 67% of the vitamin B3, 80% of the vitamin B1, 90% of the vitamin B6, half of the manganese, half of the phosphorus, 60% of the iron, and all of the dietary fiber and essential fatty acids. Fully milled and polished white rice is required to be "enriched" with vitamins B1, B3 and iron.
Empty pail with lid - necessary for grain storage.
Oxygen absorbers - recommended for long-term grain storage. When you have your grain poured from bags into pails and ready for lids, put 1 oxygen absorbers in each pail and immediately put the lid on. Immediately store unused oxygen absorbers in a Mason jar with sealing lid (lid and ring). Absorbers are activated by the presence of oxygen, so what you are doing is deactivating them by stuffing as many as you can into the jar. When they have used up the oxygen in the jar, they will deactivate. You may possibly see that the absorbers have done their job because the sides of pails will become concave (or "sucked in").
Metal pail opener - essential to opening regular lids on the 6 gallon buckets. If you would like a cheaper option, you may purchase a plastic paint bucket opener your local hardware store. It is a much cheaper alternative.
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