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Can you make pasta with whole grain flour? I'm not sure milling techniques available in those days were able to make the right kind of flour.

Also without fortifying the flour pasta is calories without nutrients. It's useful as a suplement, but dangerous to live on it long term.

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Could you please clarify why whole grain flour pasta would not have nutrients? Unless you meant white flour pasta. And here is how to make it from scratch:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_wheat_flour

Grind whole wheat into flour with a coffee grinder: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1593906/make_lowcar... (you can also buy an expensive hand-crank version)

Whole Wheat Pasta recipe: http://www.sugarlaws.com/whole-wheat-pasta

Yes, I did mean the white flour pasta.

I've never made any pasta from scratch, but they sell whole-wheat pasta at my local grocer, so I assume it must be possible.

I've seen it too, but it's not regular pasta, it has some other ingredients, so I'm not sure you could make it by hand successfully.

I don't actually know if you can or not, I was just wondering.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/whole-wheat-pasta/Detail.aspx

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