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Wheat

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A staple grain of bread and beer. Demeter’s gift-talk and farm tallies meet the same plant without one wheat religion.

  • Wheat is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists wheat (pyros) among cereal drugs: flour and related preparations used as remedies. First-century pharmacological use of the staple, not Demeter’s gift and not one wheat religion.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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  • Wheat is historically related to Vinegar.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, poultices of wheat-bread, mustard, and vinegar are applied to the soles of the feet in dangerous fever — wheat bread is mixed with that vinegar poultice.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Wheat is historically related to Milk.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, soft poultices are made of wheat-bread and milk, softened with fresh butter or sweet oil — wheat bread is mixed with that milk poultice.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Wheat is historically related to Rye.

    In Buchan Domestic Medicine, the best bread is well fermented of wheat flour, or rather of wheat and rye mixed together - wheat is mixed with that rye.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Wheat is historically related to Barley.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, Kastner’s malt wine crushes eighty pounds of pale barley malt with forty pounds of pale wheat malt before the mash.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Wheat is historically related to Beer.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, brewers whisk wheat flour into a pail of beer at cleansing to quicken yeast discharge by more carbonic acid.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Wheat is historically related to Butter.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, soft poultices are made of wheat-bread and milk softened with fresh butter or sweet oil.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Wheat is historically related to Alum.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, white shagreen is made by imbuing skin with alum, covering it with turkey-wheat dough, then washing again with alum.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Wheat is historically related to Yeast.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, brewers whisk wheat or bean flour into the gyle at cleansing so carbonic acid quickens the discharge of yeast.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Wheat is historically related to Oats.

    In Ure’s Dictionary, diastase forms during malting in the grains of barley, oats, and wheat, and is separated by moistening malt flour in cold water, pressing, filtering, and heating the clear liquid in a water bath.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Bread is historically related to Wheat.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats bread among foods made from wheat and other grains in Roman kitchen and farm speech. A named bread beside wheat as its staple grain, not wheat as the plant alone and not every loaf ritual.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Flour is historically related to Wheat.

    Columella’s farm books seat wheat meal and flour among ordinary grain products of the mill. A named flour beside wheat, not flour-paste as glue alone.

    from Columella · De Re Rustica, 1st century CE

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  • Maize is associated with Wheat.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, where wheat is scarce and maize abundant, people make maize a chief article of subsistence — maize stands in for wheat as that staple when wheat is scarce.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Solomon is historically related to Wheat.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, Solomon sent wheat, barley, oil, and wine to the labourers King Hiram had furnished him for the temple works.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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Roman religion

  • Wheat appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats wheat among staple cereals of Roman agriculture and bread. A named wheat in that encyclopedia, not the Dioscorides pharmacy wheat already walked and not barley as the beer grain.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Flail is used in Wheat.

    Columella’s De Re Rustica seats hinged beating sticks that separate grain from ear on the threshing floor among cereal harvest craft. A named flail in that wheat work, not threshing-flail as a separate catalog twin already walked elsewhere and not a pitchfork as the lifting fork.

    from Columella · De Re Rustica, 1st century CE

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Islam

  • Wheat appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly names grain and corn among provision and parable speech. A named cereal plant in that Arabic scripture, not Demeter’s gift and not Dioscorides’ wheat pharmacy already walked.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Hellenic religion

  • Wheat appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 5 seats wheat and grain among Ceres’s gifts and the famine she lays while searching for Proserpina. A named wheat in that poem, not a generic cereal dump and not barley as the same edge.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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Egyptian religion

  • Wheat appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian logos names wheat among the staple grains of Nile agriculture beside barley. A named wheat in that traveler’s Egypt, not barley alone and not a generic cereal dump.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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  • Wheat is sacred to Osiris.

    Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats grain and wheat with Osiris as vegetation god — sown and rising Osiris in Egyptian agricultural allegory. A named wheat–Osiris cult link under this source, not barley as the same edge and not a craft-object dump.

    from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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Norse tradition

  • Wheat appears in Norse tradition.

    Rígsþula household speech in the Poetic Edda seats cereal grain among bread-work of ranked farms; wheat stands as the bread-cereal neighbor to barley. A named wheat in that corpus, not barley as the ale-grain alone and not Demeter gift-talk.

    from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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Celtic tradition

European folklore

  • Bread knife is used in Wheat.

    Beeton’s Book of Household Management seats the bread-knife among knives for slicing household loaves of wheat bread without crushing the crumb. A named bread-knife in that wheat-bread frame, not a tomato-knife and not a carving-knife dump alone.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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