Kamut

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By Kim Boyce

Published 2010

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Kamut (pronounced ka-MOOT) flour is amber in color and has a smooth, buttery flavor with a faint earthiness. Smell a bag of it and you’ll find hints of wet straw and bread rising. The flavor is mild, almost sweet, and without the bitterness of many wheat varieties. This mildness, along with its fine texture, gives Kamut flour remarkable versatility and makes it particularly well suited to pastries and baked goods. Kamut flour is especially good in recipes in which butter plays a key role, such as brioche, challah, and sugar cookies, as the rich butter in these recipes brings out the intrinsic buttery flavor of the flour.