[PapaBear3625]

you do NOT have to grind wheatberries into flour before using them. You can BOIL them!...whole...and it’s a lot “like” rice...not quite of course. But we eat it on occasion that way here...either put salt on it, or butter. I get tired of it like that QUICKLY though.

In Greece, Eastern Europe and Lebanon, they make a dish called Koliva with boiled wheat mixed with honey, sugar, and fruit.

While I think of it, honey is another thing that keeps a long time, and is valuable for improving the taste of otherwise-bland foods. Honey can also be used as a topical antibiotic for skin wounds.

[hiredhand]

Koliva? I've never heard of it, but I'll bet it's CLOSE to what we make here!

Wild honey is good for healing skin wounds. I cut my food BADLY once and we had wild honey which we harvested from a bee tree. My neighbor told me to wrap it up with gauze soaked in wild honey. You see...my Dad didn't "think" I needed stitches. But when my Mamma saw it, she had an entirely different opinion! But by the time she saw it two days later, it was adhered...even though you could still tell it had been a big cut. I fell from a second floor in a home under construction to the floor below and landed on a board pile on my back and one foot.