[Sca-cooks] "Actual bread?" WAS gingerbrede

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:16:33 -0500, Judith Epstein wrote:

>I'm used to calling anything with the
>"extra" ingredients (anything besides water, yeast, salt, and a flour
>made of one of the Five Grains -- wheat, oats, barley, spelt, or
>rye)... cake. Or, rather, anything but those four ingredients will
>take a blessing other than the blessing-over-bread in Jewish practice.
>But your definition of "grain product meant to be eaten in its
>unground form" does make sense, now that I think on it. Thank you,
>kind sir!

So the traditional Shabbat bread for the Ashkenazim, challah, over 
which the blessing for bread has been made for a few centuries, you 
consider to be cake?
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita

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