: an ancient wheat (Triticum monococcum) having one-grained spikelets and grown especially formerly in poor soils in central and southern Europe and southwest Asia
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Ancient Grains Ghost Cookies Adler offers a healthier alternative to traditional cookies, by subbing out white flour for einkorn flour.
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Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 30 Sep. 2024
The crust is made from einkorn flour, aged sherry vinegar and Okinawan black sugar, and the filling — a composite of roasted, tender yams with yam juice, rum and allspice — is matured overnight before being baked off the morning of the event.
—Bryan A’hearn, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
Creating a great grain salad can be organized into four key components:
Grains: Virtually any grain can lay the foundation: wheat berries and their ancient relatives farro and einkorn, rye berries, sorghum, quinoa, millet, rice of all kinds.
—Emily Horton, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
Just like the einkorn found in the Black Desert, Jordan’s native baladi (meaning local) wheat varieties tend to be harder than the common wheat used to make commercial breads.
—Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2023
People who have been diagnosed with celiac disease have to completely avoid gluten, found in wheat, rye and barley, as well as variations of wheat including spelt, emmer (farro), einkorn and Kamut.
—Carrie Dennett, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
In about a week, Blackley had developed enough starter to begin making bread using barley, einkorn, and another old-school grain called kamut.
—Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
Whole grain: Choose from quinoa, emmer farro, einkorn, spelt, whole-grain sorghum (as opposed to pearled), whole-grain barley (again, not pearled), bulgur wheat, freekeh, Kamut wheat, brown rice, black rice, red rice and wild rice.
—Carrie Dennett, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
To have that followed kind of in rapid succession by these other millers, like Meuer Farm doing emmer, spelt and einkorn.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018
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Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 30 Sep. 2024
The crust is made from einkorn flour, aged sherry vinegar and Okinawan black sugar, and the filling — a composite of roasted, tender yams with yam juice, rum and allspice — is matured overnight before being baked off the morning of the event.
—Bryan A’hearn, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
Creating a great grain salad can be organized into four key components:
Grains: Virtually any grain can lay the foundation: wheat berries and their ancient relatives farro and einkorn, rye berries, sorghum, quinoa, millet, rice of all kinds.
—Emily Horton, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
Just like the einkorn found in the Black Desert, Jordan’s native baladi (meaning local) wheat varieties tend to be harder than the common wheat used to make commercial breads.
—Yulia Denisyuk, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2023
People who have been diagnosed with celiac disease have to completely avoid gluten, found in wheat, rye and barley, as well as variations of wheat including spelt, emmer (farro), einkorn and Kamut.
—Carrie Dennett, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
In about a week, Blackley had developed enough starter to begin making bread using barley, einkorn, and another old-school grain called kamut.
—Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2019
Whole grain: Choose from quinoa, emmer farro, einkorn, spelt, whole-grain sorghum (as opposed to pearled), whole-grain barley (again, not pearled), bulgur wheat, freekeh, Kamut wheat, brown rice, black rice, red rice and wild rice.
—Carrie Dennett, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
To have that followed kind of in rapid succession by these other millers, like Meuer Farm doing emmer, spelt and einkorn.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2018
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