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

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach 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

I have one foot out the door; I have to go and save the world from My
Evil Spawn (tm), but will try to post both over the weekend. I'm
almost certain the chestnut-based Hungarian chocolate cake has been
posted here before; will search my various disks for it, and if I
have to retype it, I will.

Adamantius