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

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> 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

Coolness.  That gives me something new to add to the ritual of the Fox Family
Speed Seder.  <evile grynne>

> 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

Can you pass us that recipe please?  As well as the Chocolate Hunyadi Death
you've already spoon-teased us with.

Patiently [ha!], Selene, Caid