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Baker baking bread in an oven – miniature in a 13th-century psalter Peasants sharing bread, from the Livre du roi Modus et de la reine Ratio, France, 14th century (Bibliothèque nationale) In medieval Europe, bread served not only as a staple food but also as part of the table service.
Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking.Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures' diet.
Still life with bread and figs, wall painting from Herculaneum. The Romans had eaten porridge and baked bread for around six hundred years after the founding of Rome.In 171 BC, during the Third Macedonian War, the arrival of Greek bakers established the first professional bakers, known as the pistores, in Rome. [1]
Freshly baked bread Anders Zorn – Bread baking (1889) Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread, but many other types of foods can be baked. [1]
Christ breaking bread at the supper at Emmaus Dark sprouted bread. Bread has a significance beyond mere nutrition in many cultures in the Western world and Asia because of its history and contemporary importance. Bread is also significant in Christianity as one of the elements (alongside wine) of the Eucharist; see sacramental bread.
Since grains have been a staple food for millennia, the activity of baking is a very old one. Control of yeast, however, is relatively recent. [1] By the fifth and sixth centuries BCE, the ancient Greeks used enclosed ovens heated by wood fires; communities usually baked bread in a large communal oven. [1]
Mum's Traditional Irish Soda Bread. Courtesy of Gemma Stafford at Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking. Ingredients. 1 3/4 cups (265g/ 9oz) whole wheat flour (fine or coarsely ground) 1 3/4 cups (265g/9oz ...
When the dough had dried out enough that it began to crack, it was ready to bake. Another no-yeast bread could be made with a combination of cream of tartar (acid) and sodium bicarbonate. Baking soda could also be used to "sweeten" sour milk for baking soft sour milk bread. [5] Yeast could be made by boiling flour with sugar and salt.