Semolina

Semolina is a term used in the milling industry for Teilstückchen of the grain (mostly wheat) with a size of 0.3 to 1 mm ( 300-1000 microns ). Semolina grains are rounded to angular and white to yellowish - brown in color. Semolina flour is prepared similarly, but the mill is to set different. The finer flour fraction mitentsteht simultaneously in this grinding process, and later sieved and used as flour. The miller can adjust the grinding so that either occur more semolina flour or more particles through various settings on the roll mill. Powdery flour particles are separated in the mill from semolina.

Grain sizes

The resulting tailings are separated with a meal Shine in polished and unpolished ( shells of non-exempt ) meal and in different size classes:

• Coarse semolina (600-1000 microns )
• Medium- grit ( 475-600 microns )
• Fine semolina ( 300-475 microns )

For comparison, the grain sizes of haze lying between 150 and 300 microns, which are of flour is less than 150 microns.

Semolina

Very fine semolina is used for baby food and baby food, cream of wheat, and other desserts and sweets as well as for Grießschmarrn or semolina dumplings. Baby meal for stirring into milk again growing cold is digested by steaming and then squeezing in a rolling mill, should be easier to digest and it need not be boiled.

Also for cake baking and dumpling production is used instead of flour fine semolina, which is also available under the name dumpling flour commercially in southern Germany.

Durum wheat semolina

In addition, be of particular durum wheat and durum wheat semolina and pasta cooker for the production, especially noodles, ground. Durum wheat semolina is also suitable for the preparation of other foods, such as semolina soup, semolina dumplings, dumplings, puddings and rubbish.

Where durum wheat only roughly cut, the result is grits, which are used for example for the production of bulgur. For durum wheat semolina can be finished such as Nockerlgrieß, which was subjected to a disintegrating treatment producing.

Other cereals

Meal of oats, barley, spelled, millet or buckwheat is used to produce (mostly sweet ) Breigerichten. Maize meal is made for the polenta.