SC - Penguins are period, & so are elephants...
Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir
nannar at isholf.is
Thu Feb 10 15:41:26 PST 2000
To work properly, leavening needs gluten. Barley has essentially no gluten,
so it doesn't rise much. Leavened barley breads are made from a mixture of
wheat and barley flour where the wheat provides the gluten.
Bear
> Bear said:
> > The one statement I might agree with was that the common bread was
> > unleavened, as the primary grain for much of Europe was barley. But
> there
> > is nothing particularly wrong with unleavened flat breads.
>
> Huh? Are you saying you can't leaven barley bread? Even with ale barm
> and such? What about barley/wheat mixes?
>
> Lord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
>
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