Homemade Crunchy Wheat Cereal

I am so happy to have found a simple way to eat home ground wheat regularly. This homemade crunchy wheat cereal is very good for you, and is great mixed with yogurt. To make it yourself grind two cups of wheat berries in your mill (or use 3-1/2 cups of purchased whole-wheat flour) and stir into it a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of soda and a tablespoon of sugar. Then pour into this two cups of sour milk (which is just two cups of regular milk with a tablespoon of vinegar added to make it curdley). Stir it all up.

Spread the resulting dough in a greased cookie sheet with sides (aka jelly roll pan), or on your cast iron griddle, and bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes. It will come out of the oven looking like a big flat cake. Cool it completely.

Now break the cake into pieces and toss them a few at a time into your blender and whir them (I use a pulse setting) until they are little nuggets. Spread all the nuggets onto two cookie sheets with sides (or two cast iron griddles) and bake them at 300 degrees for one hour, stirring every 15 minutes.

This is more steps than I usually take for anything, but well worth the effort for a very nutritious and inexpensive snack and day-starter.