Part of a Zoom Seminar, Thursday, March 27, 2025: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rubel-seminar-finding-a-focus-to-bread-culture-in-two-neolithic-breads-tickets-1260147578329?aff=oddtdtcreator Note: I will be re-testing this weekend – March 22 & 23 updating as tests suggest modifying the aproaches outlined here. Wm. These two breads were descried by Andreas Heiss in his paper on two breads found at the Parkhaus OpĂ©ra, Zurich, Switzerland, Late Neolithic…
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Bread and the Military
“It [bread consumption in Japan] only started coming back in around the 1840s, when the military started adding bread to the soldiers’ rations during the second Opium War. Egawa Hidetatsu, who was in charge of coastal defenses around Tokyo Bay during the time, enlisted a military science researcher to create a hard, long-lasting bread as…
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…
Mushroom Stew by E. Smith, circa 1730
Mushrooms species appropriate for this recipe: This recipe was intended for the commercial mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. Because the mushroom is minimally cooked, this recipe is only appropriate for mushrooms that can be eaten raw in some quantity. The only other mushroom I suggest is porcini, Boletus edulis. This recipe for a basic mushroom side-dish is…
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