[Sca-cooks] 12th-century bread (was Re: Favorite Frugal PennsicMeals)

[Susan Fox]

Volker Bach wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2006 14:43 schrieb Terry Decker:
>   
>> How did you do the steaming?
>>     
>
> In a metal basket over boiling water. In poeriod they'd more probably have 
> used a cloth or basket, but this one came with my pot set. 
>
> I also forgot to check that the moisture runs off - it collected at one point 
> and drip-drip-dripped a 'hole' into the loaf.
>
> Giano
>   
Perhaps this is another explanation for the hole in the middle of the 
bagel, the modern world's favorite boiled bread?  Just a thought.


Selene