Ancient bread (was Re: [Sca-cooks] FW:request for recipe(s))

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Randy Goldberg MD:
>  > Aye.  Even so, every time I opine at Seder that the "bread of
>affliction" of
>>  our ancestors probably resembled pita more than modern matzot, my
>father
>>  gives me a dirty look.  Practically part of the family ritual now,
>much like
>>  my brother delivering the Four Questions and Dad beginning the answer
>with
>>  "Funny you should ask!"
>
>Less like "pita" as we know it in the US, probably something more like a
>lavash (a middle-eastern flat bread that's very thin, essentially the
>predecessor of the ubiquitous and nasty "wrap").
>
>Avraham

The recipes I've seen for hand-made matzoh, such as the one in
Machlin's "The Classic Cookery of the Italian Jews" seems to support
this. That version is full of little holes pinched in with the
fingers.

Adamantius