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memories-of-ancients · 1 month

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Kyboi --- Ancient Sicilian Bread Rolls (4th century BC)

from Historical Italian Cooking

#history #ancient history #food #bread #ancient bread #cooking #baking #yummy food #nom noms #Youtube

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ancientstuff · 2 months

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Carbs since forever ago. Amazing to find something like this. So ephemeral.

#archaeology #ancient turkey #catalhoyuk #ancient bread #bread

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peepee-magee · 11 months

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I had Ezekiel bread for the first time n istg I straight up became a 12th century villager on my way to pick up a loaf of bread for breakfast before the family went to work for the day in the time I was eating it.

Idk which grain is transporting me to past lives but they really need to put a warning on the label

#rambles #ezekiel bread #I straight up saw me in the dress #village #the whole nine yards #all the houses were made out of some sort of mud n wood #it was in rolling green hills surrounded by grain fields and a river was near by #the sun hadn’t fully rose yet n I was taking my time getting to the bakers since the morning quietness nice #I am not kidding when I said I was transported #idk if for good or for bad but either way with #other than being possessed by the ancestors I actually enjoyed the bread quiet a bit #might get into ancient methods of bread making now #bread #ancient bread

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spineless-lobster · 19 days

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HAPPY ROMAN BREAD DAY Y’ALL!!!!!!!

#on april 19 I made bread #BREAD DAY!!!!!!!#CONGRATS TO WHOEVER WROTE THAT!!!!!!!#history #ancient rome #pompeii #bread

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sspacegodd · 2 years

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ANCIENT COFFEE CAKE

This is a loaf of bread from the first century AD, discovered at Pompeii, preserved for centuries in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. So it’s probably a little dry.

The markings visible on the top are from a Roman bread stamp, which bakeries were required to use in order to mark the source of the loaves and prevent fraud because nobody except Subway likes fake bread.

#ancient bread #pompeii #roman

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copperbadge · 10 months

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I had some questions about the "Roman Bread" on my Pompeii food post, including what the string that bound the loaves was for and had I ever tried it. I don't tend to like working with wet/slack doughs or sourdough, both of which the Roman bread was, but at the time I did have two loaves of beer bread rising, so I figured I'd try out the string technique. This beer bread is a relatively soft dough that normally bakes inside a pre-heated cast-iron pan in a very hot oven, which is actually similar to how Roman bread would have baked.

[ID: Three photos of a loaf of beer bread; in the first, the unbaked dough is sitting on parchment, bound with a string around the outside and with scoremarks in the top to divide it into wedges. In the second, the baked loaf is resting on a cooling rack, the scoremarks evident but not overly deep; in the third, I am holding the bread by the string around its edge, as it dangles sideways in the air.]

The most widely-held theory is that the string allowed a customer to carry the loaf easily, although bakers have pointed out (and I believe classicists generally agree) that binding the dough also gives it more structure. The loaf definitely stood much taller and baked up "higher" with a binding made from doubled-over butcher's twine than it would have normally. I scored the top with a lame, but the scoring didn't hold as true as I'd have liked; bakers who have done more work with Roman bread generally don't score it this way and instead use a floured dowel to press all the way through the dough and then let it come back together, which is how they believe ancient bakers did it.

Some bakers have said that tying the string around the middle also allows you to rip the loaf lengthwise, splitting top and bottom; mine didn't work super well for that, but I also was working with a stronger crumb, I suspect.

But yeah, all in all, the string is useful if you want to give your loaf more structure and held the bread well enough that I certainly could have carried it around an ancient market if I'd had a mind to.

#food #sam cooks #bread #ancient baking #ancient food #history #rome #pompeii

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thestalkerbunny · 1 year

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Imagine coming over 2.3 Million years into the future only to find out those funny monkey mammal creatures you used to chase around for giggles selectively bred a dog to be 100% FIREPROOF.

#TSB Draws #Pokemon SV #Pokemon Scarlet #Roaring Moon #Salamance #Dauchsbun #Fairy #Dragon #Dark #Fire #Dauchsbun's special ability is so op and beautiful #An ancient monster vs a little weiner dog made of loaf bread #who would win-the answer surprises.

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chiropteracupola · 5 months

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pouring spaghetti down the storm drain for the local raccoons should really be a thing that happens in tf2 instead of a thing which is done in real life by my neighbor.

#em draws stuff #team fortress 2 #tf2 #soldier tf2 #mrs redacted if I come out there one more time to find the street around the storm drain littered with stale bread or ancient pasta. my god

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callmeleomercury · 4 months

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these pictures are awful but i just made a loaf of panis quadratus and i’m so excited