[dangerbird2]

> If you try to simply cook wheat grains, you will end up with a rather nasty porridge

Maybe nasty to modern eaters, but wheat porridge was a staple in Europe, N. Africa, and the Middle East for thousands of years, especially outside of towns where gristmills were far away and often exorbitantly expensive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frumenty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harees