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THE
SPELT
Spelt
is a cereal, is divided into several species: Triticum monococcum,
Triticum dicoccum, Triticum spelta. These
subdivisions depend on the shape of the spike, the color of the flour, the husk,
the caryopsis.
There
is spelled nude spelled dress, pearl barley and emmer wheat hard.
In
ancient times it was the most cultivated grain and the quality of Triticum durum
dicoccum. It
refers Zea of Theophrastus, of Dioscorides and Galen.
Its
cultivation dates back to ancient times the Egyptians and the tribes of the
Mediterranean. Triticum
dicoccum grains were found in ancient Egyptian tombs dating back to before the
dynastic period in the stone age at Worms in Germany and in Aquileia in Italy
the bronze age.
Among
the various ornaments that came to the tomb of the Etruscan Chariot of the sixth
century. BC
found
at Monteleone di Spoleto, there was also a bowl of cereal, of course, charred by
the time it is very likely that it was spelled right. Ancient
literature Eastern, Greek and Bible speaks often spelled as a food and as usual
on offer valuable to be presented to the gods.
Spelt
was the core of "Puls" (soup of boiled grain) to the Greeks and the
Romans made great use. The
historian Pliny speaks of several as spelled. According
to the law of the Twelve Tables for feeding a prisoner was required every day a
pound of pearl barley.
How
the Greeks as the Romans had spelled various uses sacral.
In
ancient Roman law was in force the marriage ceremony of
"Confarreazione" which celebrates the passage of women in her
husband's family (conventus in manus) was solemnly given to the people and noble
effort was a cake spelled the newlyweds.
From
the sixth and fifth century before Christ makes his appearance in the
Mediterranean corn, wheat and hard and is decreasing the use of Spelt remains,
however, part of the provisioning of the Roman army and the country people. Its
cultivation is still in limited areas in mountain areas with cold and calcareous
soils.
To
use the abundance of barley in the past were some language terms "farina"
(from barley) "sfarrare"
(grinding mill as spelled.)
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