Register at EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seminar-45-finding-a-focus-to-bread-culture-in-two-neolithic-breads-tickets-1260147578329?aff=oddtdtcreator Join me, along with other bread and grain lovers, for my 45th Thursday Bread History Seminar on March 27, at 9:00 am Pacific. We’ll recreate recipes I’ve developed utilizing the archeologist Andreas Heiss’ analysis of the breads. We will taste them, and then talk about where these breads fit into the…
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Two Breads from a Late Neolithic Swiss Community Described by the Archeobotanist, Andreas Heiss.
I am posting the PDF of the paper that describes two breads, one, a coarse barely bread, and the other, a more refined bread made of a mixed grains, barley and wheat. The later bread was flavored with an expensive seed, that of the wild parsley. This is the clean science story. How do we…
Confirmed Well Sifted Mesopotamian Late Neolithic Bread circa 6400 – 5900 BCE (8,600 – 81,800 BP)
Two big takeaways. First, and this is truly huge, this paper seems to prove that wheat and barley were sifted through multiple sieves. It is not news that Neolithic breads were sifted — but the analysis of the phytoliths, hard structures found in grasses — have wear patterns indicative of multiple sifting as in first…
The Buttered Loaf
This is a style of bread that we, fortunately, yet unfortunately, have lost. For some hundreds of years there was a dessert made by opening up a warm loaf or roll and pouring into it with sugar-sweetened melted butter flavored with rose water into the warm crumb, now irresistibly yummy. The cultural question might be…
William Rubel 