SC - Hard versus soft wheat berries for frumenty?

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear said: 
> If the mill could not turn out a fine enough flour, then frumenty makes
> sense.  It also makes sense to use the fine meal from a bolting for bread
> and the coarse meal for frumenty.  Harder wheat turns out more fine meal
> suitable for bread, so I have no doubt bread was more common in the areas
> which raised harder wheats.

But I think I remember us discussing a while back that the hard wheats
didn't make good bread. Thus in regions like Italy where hard wheat is
grown you get pastas more than bread. Or is this type of wheat harder,
still? Or do I have this reversed entirely?

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