By Dr E KIRSTEN PETERS
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The hardest wheat turned soft by science

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Last updated 2/21/2013 at 6:07pm



Eighty years ago my mother was in grade school where schoolroom paste was made by mixing a little flour and water together. Memories of that simple glue came back to her when she and I recently stood in my kitchen, mixing two small batches of flour and water. First I mixed regular “better for bread” flour with water in a little dish, then I did the same with special test flour made from a new type of durum wheat. The first mixture was a pasty, lightest-of-light-tan color, the second had a pale but clearly evident yellow hue.

Durum is an unusual type of wheat, one with kernels so hard we...



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