Cut whole from the nodding stands of @nodes/grain-plants/barley and bound at the stem, this sheaf still bristles with the long awns that make the plant unmistakable in a field. The grain stays locked in the heads until a mill threshes it loose.
Barley is a stubborn crop, holding out on thin ground where wheat and rye give up, and its awns fight the blade the whole way. The rustic loaf it bakes into tastes of the ground it came off.


Barley Sheaf

A bound armful of bearded stalks, pale straw-gold.

 go under the stones — awns, husks and all — and what is swept out is 

@items/grain-sheaves/barley threshed and ground between the stones until the awns are nothing but dust and what is left is a soft, pale tan powder — a slow grind, since the bristles clog the quern if they are fed in too fast.
Barley flour is heavier and less willing to rise than wheat, so the loaf it makes is squat and close-crumbed by nature rather than by mistake.


Barley Flour

A sack of pale tan flour, stamped with a bearded ear.

, pale tan and soft to the touch.
The bristles are the difficulty: fed too fast they bind the quern, so barley is ground slowly and swept out often by a cook who has learned the stones' patience on gentler grain.


Mill Barley Flour

Bake Millet Loaf

Bake Barley Loaf

Grind barley sheaves into soft, pale tan flour at the mill.


Tier	3
Level	13
Experience	35
Station	Mill

Mill Barley Flour

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