[Sca-cooks] Sweet frumenty recipes...

[Terry Decker]

Not at all within period.  Triticale is a hybrid of wheat (Triticum) and rye 
(Secale) specifically bred in the 1930's to reduce world hunger.  It 
produces 5 to 50 percent greater yield than wheat.  Human use products are 
still being worked out (the flour is a little heavy), but primary emphasis 
in North america is on using it for feed, fodder and silage.

Quadrotriticale appears to be a genetically enhanced polyploidal varietal of 
triticale, which the Guide says may attract tribbles (and possibly Martian 
flat cats).

Bear

> And when is it best to use quadrotriticale? :-)
>
> Huette, slinking back to her Asylum...
>
> --- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>> A soft wheat would be most appropriate, although hard red winter wheat 
>> has
>> worked for me.  Depending on the time and the location, the wheat would
>> likely have been emmer (Triticum dicoccum), club wheat (T. aestivum
>> compactum) or a soft common wheat (T. aestivum aestivum).  Modern wheats 
>> are
>> variants of the latter subspecies.
>>
>> Spelt (T. spelta) was the most common hard wheat from Antiquity well into
>> the Middle Ages.  Most of the hard wheats are modern hybrids.
>>
>> Bear