oats

[Ogden]

One of the two dishes I have on tour is (my dictionary says groats or gruel.
But the grinding is difficult without my kitchen-grinder.
Any idea how to do it on tour? The little pepper mills don´t work.
I don´t want to take some kind of oatmeal, because the grain looses protein
from the moment you grind it.

 

[Toddy]

It does? We've been eating porage made from pre ground oats for centuries and seem to thrive on it.
Oats grind up quite easily between a couple of stones. You need to bash them a bit first to break the hsuks open and then they just rub down into a wholemeal type flour.
Pinhead meal is the usual stuff for proper porage, it's basically just partially hulled grains that have been chopped up.
atb,
Toddy

 

[JohnC]

can you use a hand coffee mill set on coarse?

 

[Simon E]

Dick Proeneke (Spelling might be wrong) This is the guy that in his 50's went to Alaska alone, built a cabin with hand tools, alone and lived there for 30 years, alone, said Oatmeal was the finest of foods in his opinion. He did get stuff flown in by a friend of him, but if you ever get to see the DVD (One mans Wilderness) he is a pretty well made looking chap and not an ounce of fat on him.