Ancient bread (was Re: [Sca-cooks] FW:request for recipe(s))
Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 22 10:03:47 PST 2002
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
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