A Guide To The Many Types Of Bread Page 1: The History Of Bread
Making Jump To Glossary If you love good bread, you’re in luck:
There’s a bread renaissance in America. Artisan bakers in many
cities, and the availability of good breads in gourmet markets
and by mail order, mean that one no longer has to take a trip to
Europe to get a good piece of bread. The History Of Bread
Making: It Started As Porridge Bread is one of the oldest
prepared foods (foods that do not grow naturally but require
preparation). It dates to the Neolithic era, around 10,000
B.C.E.), when man farmed barley, einkorn wheat, emmer wheat,
millet and spelt. Man had discovered that adding water to the
grain—i.e., creating porridge—made it more palatable. Further
experimentation led to cooking the mixture on stones that had
been heated in a fire, creating the first breads, which were
flat and tortilla-like. The earliest bread-making tools date to
8,000 B.C.E. Leavening, using wild yeast to make the bread rise,
came later during prehistoric ti