Somewhere in the mix there will be flour
Right now, in our kitchen, there is a production of cookies. Perfect timing because I have already finished the last batch. Cookies have a short shelf life. In synchronicity I just finished watching a video about industrial flour. And I have questions which will not be answered. I neglected to question my grand father but how flower was produced in his time. I know part of the story because I have been in the fields, and I once rescued someone who fell into the pond where our local mill used to be. Just over there, in the woods. I imagine the flour was something produced on farms locally there is a legend of someone carrying a millstone home from the shore a long time ago. Anyhow the process of buying flour became a common local merchant thing where you went to the store I came back with a small package of flour. Or a large bag if you had a large family. I’ve seen photos of clothing that people produced from flower bags. Proof that a lot more bread was eaten back then. Or their families were larger. The documentary, from PBS, show me the flour has always been important to the economy and that some people made great fortunes supplying flour to others. The brand names live on. I also learned that the idea of eating cold breakfast cereal came about from a happy accident involving cannons in a laboratory. We also ate puffed wheat although had no idea of its noble origins. Our family considered them to be a way to get more sugar into your diet. It has been a long time since I ate a bowl of puffed wheat. No matter. You can still go to the store and buy a bag of flour so little has changed over the years. I cannot remember that my mother ever had to buy such large amounts of flour. I would have liked to put the question to my grandmother. It looks like mankind has always found ways to eat wheat. The first of the biscuits has been delivered to my hand and is now gone. If you want one you better get here soon.
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