Re(2): SC - Bread

[Philip & Susan Troy]

S. Noss wrote:
> 
> Kind gentles, a newbie question.  What is a bolting cloth?
> 
> Shirley

A bolting cloth is used to sift and grade flour. In pre-industrial
times, whole wheat was ground in a mill, then sifted through
successively finer bolting cloths to get various grades of flour, from
dark whole-wheat to _almost_ white, for the wealthy. You can still buy a
textile item called bolting cloth, I understand, but it usually isn't
used for bolting anymore, so far as I know.

Nowadays the harder wheat we tend to grow and eat has the outside bran
removed by a machine with rollers, and THEN it's ground into flour.

Adamantius  
 
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