Bread is so versatile that it can be eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Used to make delicious sandwiches or just toasted for an accompaniment to a soup, they are easier to make than you think.
Bread is based on a few simple ingredients – flour, yeast, salt, and water. What you add to them makes them special. And if you use your yeasted dough along with something sweet, you have got an extraordinary treat.
Did you know that Boule bread is one of the oldest bread types? Original breadmakers from France named it Boule as the original shape was that of a ball.
Did you know?
Did you know that the Great Fire of London in 1666 started at a bakery or that old wives’ tales stated that eating bread crusts gave you curlier hair?
The earliest archaeological evidence for leavened bread is from ancient Egypt around 4,000 BCE.
Did you know that Greece is one of the first countries to make flaky dough to create pastries? Aristophanes, a comic playwright of ancient Athens, mentioned small pastries filled with fruit in his plays written during the 5th century BCE.