Wheat Berry: The Midwestern Wheat Sales and Buying Game created by Ruth Paget
Background:
Wheat is big business in the Midwestern United States and even offers international careers to salesman in places like South Dakota and Iowa.
Knowledge of wheat vocabulary helps you make better buying and selling decisions, since it reflects wheat and bread production methods.
Objective:
Learn the vocabulary of the Midwestern wheat world.
Materials Needed:
-Heritage Baking cookbook by Ellen King, which details the Midwestern American Heritage Wheat Movement and King’s Hewn Bread bakery’s place in this movement.
-index cards
-pens
Number of Players:
Individual play to learn vocabulary and team play to test knowledge.
Method:
Make vocabulary flash cards with the index cards.
Use Ellen King’s Heritage Baking to find definitions for the following Midwestern Wheat industry vocabulary words:
-heritage wheat
-landrace wheat
-ancient grains
-spring wheat with growing regions
-winter wheat with growing regions
*For the next words, note protein content, gluten, and best uses for these flour types:
-hard red winter (HRW)
-hard red spring (HRS)
-soft red winter (SRW)
-soft red spring (SRS)
-soft white (SW)
*For milling
-wheat berry
-germ
-endosperm
-bran
-extraction rate
-bolted flour
*For bread making
-starter ingredient list
-starter
-starter names
-rise
-knead
-bake
Happy Baking!
By Ruth Paget
-author Eating Soup with Chopsticks, Marrying France, and Europe's Lessons written during overseas duty in Germany + 5 other Kindle books
-developer of the Novgorod and Bento War Games + 8 Classical Western Civilization War Games
-developer of food and beverage knowledge games
-creator of online exhibits about San Miguel Arcanagel Mission, French baguette making, and the Carmel Valley History Center
-creator of French travel and culture games
-writer of 2000+ Central Coast California lifestyle blogs
-family genealogist
-developer of 9 music theory games