In article >,
Doug Freyburger > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> >
> > Is white or red millet an edible grain as a cereal?
> > How about for making breads?
>
> The health food and vitamin place I go to is a small local chain -
> Fruitful Yield. They carry various wheat free or gluten free breads in
> their freezer section. Sometimes they carry one made from millet. It's
> good. It tastes somehow a little bit sweet.
>
> There's a scene in the movie "The Seven Samurai" where the villagers are
> out recruiting samurai to help their village. They feed the prospect
> warriors rice but they eat millet. One of the samurai eats their millet
> and thinks it is terrible. Remembering that scene I was surprised at
> how good the millet bread was.
>
> Being gluten free a recipe that uses millet to makde bread will need a
> chemical leavener. Millet is not closely enough related to trigger my
> intolerance. For comparison spelt does trigger my intolerance but rye
> does not. Millet is one of the gluten free grains so it's even more
> distantly related. Millet is a common livestock feed grain.

It's also a common bird seed. I was feeding Freya before I posted that.
I have a stone wheat grinder around here someplace that belonged to mom.
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