[Sca-cooks] Winter wheat berries

[yaini0625 at yahoo.com]

Hej- I heard St. Lucia saved a small Swedish village from starvation during the winter by providing wheat or grain. St. Lucia's Day is celebrated every December 13th in the Scandinavian counties with St. Lucia buns made with wheat, saffron and raisins. Served with hot pot of Viking coffee.

Aelina the Saami 
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] Winter wheat berries

I made a sort of risotto with winter wheat berries as a side dish to a roasted chicken tonight. I am familiar with their use in a sweet Sicilian pudding called cuccia made to commemorate St. Lucia's day. There's a legend that during one of Sicily's many famines, in 1582, the people of Syracuse prayed to St. Lucy and she brought ships loaded with wheat to the starving island. The people were so eager to eat that they just boiled the wheat and didn't bother to grind it into flour.

So, were there actually any uses of winter wheat berries in any period cuisines?

Adelisa


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