This image shows a small pile of ancient Greek bulgar, consumed by Europeans as long as 8,000 years ago. It comes from a site called Mesimeriani Toumba in northern Greece that dates to 2100 B.C. [Soultana Maria Valamoti]
Posted on 11/06/2008 5:49:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Dating from between 5920 to 5730 B.C., the ancient cereal consisted of parboiled bulgur wheat that Early Neolithic Bulgarians could refresh in minutes with hot water.
"People boiled the grain, dried it, removed the bran and ground it into coarse particles," lead author Soultana-Maria Valamoti told Discovery News.
"In this form, the cereal grain can be stored throughout the year and consumed easily, even without boiling, by merely soaking in hot water," added Valamoti, an assistant professor of archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
She and her colleagues studied the Bulgarian grain, excavated at a site called Kapitan Dimitrievo, as well as 4,000-year-old grains of barley and wheat from northern Greece. Very high magnification by microscope revealed precise details about the individual cereal grains, including their composition.
The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
This image shows a small pile of ancient Greek bulgar, consumed by Europeans as long as 8,000 years ago. It comes from a site called Mesimeriani Toumba in northern Greece that dates to 2100 B.C. [Soultana Maria Valamoti]
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There’s nothing new under the sun...
8,000 year old Quaker Instant Oatmeal. Cool!
"In1996 the Managing Board of the Bulgarian Brewers Union declared July 20a holiday of the brewers in Bulgaria. Then the time abbot of theBachkovo monastery father Naum found a text saying that God sent St.Ilia to punish the sinful Judaic and ordered him to teach them making adrink of grain which would not make them drunk. Traditionally in JulyBulgar..."
Cream O’ Wheat...Afterall, taste isn’t everything!
How do those people know it was meant to eat? It appears like something to ferment. And distill!
Lot of folks consider oatmeal to be kinda - well - plebian.
But the truth is, oatmeal is very, very, very good for you.
And you are right! A little butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon, that stuff will stick to your ribs for hours! Very satisfying.
I like my oats with a good ladle full of stewed meat, some broth and lots of salt and pepper.
I actually use rolled oats as a thickener/texturizer in various soups and stews.
It’s fairly flavor neutral like that.
Interesting use of oats. Never thought of using it that way. Would Quaker Instant work?
I imagine it could.
But all the Quaker instant I ever saw is fruit-flavored.
Googly Eyes! that picture made me think of this skit.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/16417/saturday-night-live-googly-eyes-gardener
I mean the 1 minute plain instant that comes in the cardboard cylinder tube thing. That’s what I eat since the non instant takes to long for a single guy like me.
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