Or you can go for its real splendor and make mush, which is what you get when you mix a ground grain with a liquid.

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Sitting at room temperature, wild yeasts in the air and on the grain settle into the mix.

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She discovered that she could scoop handfuls of mixed sand and grain and then toss the mix out onto the water.

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Bowman said he bought the seeds as part of an undifferentiated mix of "commodity" seeds from a grain elevator, and that farmers had used such seeds for planting for decades.

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