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Bread is one of our oldest foods, a pillar of civilisation. Nearly
every civilisation around the world has developed it. Bread has
several key ingredients: (flour, liquid, oils*, leavening
substance*, salt*, sugars*)
the major types for each of these are:
flours:
wheat
corn
nut
rice
liquids:
water
milk
broth
blood
(yes blood)
oils:
butter
olive oil
sesame seed oil
other oils**
leavening substances:
Yeast
baking powder
fermented stuff***
sugars:
cane
corn syrup
maple
others ****
I would like to see a visual that shows where all the bread
from around the world lie in relation to each other on a big
graph, or maybe a calculator that lets you enter different
mixes of ingredients and find out what kind of bread or bread
hybrid it will be. (ie. ‘cresent-flatbread’ or ‘cornbread-cake’)
* not essential
** too many to list, but the big distinction is between fat and
vegetable oils
*** wheat flours have natural rising qualities
**** can’t list off the top of my head ...
A Bread Winner!
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Idea by idealady [LoriZ, May 09 2001]
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Unleavened bread is still bread.
Roast it on a hot rock
Bread evolved separately in pratically every culture. You need to find some way to make grass seeds palatable and digestible. Even Australian Aborigines made crude bread. We have a collection of milling stones we found in the bush when I was a kid. |
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All this bread history stuff is "half-bake" to the max. |
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What about Future's Calculator? Maybe a Palm device would be more convenient.
Could even hold QuickTime movies for prep hints for BreadDummies |
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