Theory
Elsewhere on this wiki you can read about emergency preparedness. In my quest for foods with a long shelf life and a theory of how to incorporate them into our regular eating I learned that wheat berries can be stored for upwards of 20 years. Wheat berries are the only ingredient in wheat flour and I already knew that all sorts of things can be made from wheat flour. Wheat berries are available in 50# sacks or 45# buckets. I ordered 2 sacks and 1 bucket with the idea that I'd end up rotating three buckets; 2 storage and one working.
Turning berries into whole wheat flour is pretty straightforward, especially in a modern kitchen with electricity. For my initial foray I used our Vita Mix blender with fairly good results; run the blender on high for 1 minute with 1 cup of wheat berries and you get about 1 cup of flour. To avoid volumetric inconsistency I measure flour by weight in all of these recipes.
My goal here is not to make the most delicious bread products possible, but rather to make a variety of the most delicious things I can make starting with wheat berries.
Recipes
/0Knead - add 1/4 cup water for english muffins
/BlenderGriddleCakes - these are nasty, here as a warning
Resources
http://pleasanthillgrain.com/ - all things the home miller and bread baker might need
- fidibus, wolfgang or komo mills - pretty countertop stone mills
http://wheatmontana.com/ - wheat