SC - Yeast

[Jane Boyko]

Russian pie dough recipes.
Marina

At 13:03 2001-02-21 -0600, you wrote:
>What kind of pastry?  It does make a difference.
>
>Yeast breads appear in Egypt and the Swiss lake villages around 3500 BCE.
>There are some Roman recipes which use yeast and there are a few period
>recipes which call for yeast, but most yeast pastry recipes are after 1600.
>
>Bear   
>
>> I just looked at the Food Timeline and I don't have any of my 
>> history books
>> with me.  Can anyone tell me when yeast first came into use 
>> with pastry?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Marina
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