Bag of Khorasan flour (Wholemeal Kamut) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 100046 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Triticum turanicum | Entry Book Number | 6.2018 | |
| Artefact Name | Bag of Khorasan flour (Wholemeal Kamut) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | United States | TDWG Region | United States | ||
| Parts Held | Bag of Khorasan flour (Wholemeal Kamut) | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Bag of Khorasan flour (Wholemeal Kamut)Use: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Nesbitt, Mark | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 00/01/2018 | Donor Notes | Purchased from Waitrose | ||
| Collector | Marriage, Michael & Marriage, Clare | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Notes from Packaging: Organic pale stoneground flour milled from whole khorasan grain, a rare wheat species related to mordern varieties. Excellent for baking gourmet breads and pasta. Kamut grain is a khorasan wheat, Triticum turgindum. Said to be th, e wheat of the Pharoahs, the crop produces bold golden ears of grain with striking long black awns or whiskers. Kamut kharasan flour makes great bread, pasta, pizza and biscuits and is part of our range of heritage and speciality flours. Kharasan wheat,, tricum turgidum is a hard wheat type whose origins can be traced back to the Fertile Crescent in Egypt where it is though early agriculture first developed. With large golden grains, twice the size of many modern wheat varieties, it mills into a soft wh, olegrain flour with a pale, creamy colour. The KAMUT trade mark was introuduce in 1990 to protect and preserve the exceptional quality of this ancient wheat and indicates that licensed seed was grown by organic farmers in North America and the flour was, processed under KAMUT certification. | ||||