This video offers a very clear look at the effort that at least this baker goes to in order to insure that there is no sand or ash sticking to the final bread. The baker also reminds us that this bread is smaller than the Bedouin make when out in the desert on their own….
Category: Bread
Baking in a Tandoor Oven
The tandoor oven is the most common oven from the Caucuses to Northern India. The are a couple ways to think of the tandoor oven. The tandoor can be thought of as both a chimney and an oven wall built around a fire. Bread is slapped onto the heated wall where it sticks and bakes…
William Cobbett Cottage Economy (1821): A Basic Bread
William Cobbett’s Cottage Economy (1821) is an opinionated, eccentric, and certainly to a modern reader, a work marred by an offensive tone.
Baked on a Griddle
This is a disquieting video of flatbreads being baked in Afghanistan. In it, we see a young baker forming and the rolling out a bread to beaked on a griddle. The focus is on the rolling out which is done slowly. The film maker seems to get bored with the rolling-out process and so he…
Baking Bread in Sand #2
https://youtu.be/Vqel_CXipAY Detail of interest: the flour dusted depressing. This video is made up of a series of stills. We do lose some technical information, particularly regarding how the ash and embers are swept out from the sand. But there is one detail in this video I haven’t seen in others. The bottom of the heated…
Baked under flaming branches
This is a truly extraordinary video. The text provided by the film maker identifies the bread as follows: This is on the edge of the Sahara Desert near Zagora, Morocco. The locals make bread by placing the dough on heated rocks and cooking the top with palm fronds. The dough is then buried in the…
Two-Chambered Bread Oven
I am not sure where this set of three videos was made. If you know, please leave a comment. I am assuming North Africa or Central Asia. I have personally never seen an oven of the type filmed here. The baker is using a double chambered oven. There is a firebox that communicates with the…
Manchet Bread from The Good Huswifes Handmaide in the Kitchen (1594)
This one of the earliest and most important English bread recipes. The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchen was published in England in 1594. It is one of the first English cookbooks. The anonymous author offers a wide range of recipes, mostly simple, and most reasonably accessible to modern readers. The book includes two
Practical Bread-making (1897)
Frederick Vine’s Practical bread-making was published in London in 1897. It is a small book in a series of small books that Frederick Vine wrote for bakers in the last decade of the nineteenth century covering all aspects of the baking trade including biscuits, pastries, and standing pies. Practical bread-making is in the genre of …
Historic Breads at Plimoth Plantation
Corn (maize) and wheat breads baked at Plimoth Plantation. Plimoth Plantation is a national park. The primary attraction is a reenactment village that is designed to provide a sense of what life was like for the early settlers. The village is frozen in time. It is always 1627 at Plimoth Plantation. By focusing on a…
William Rubel 