[Sca-cooks] Hittite Cookery: a short review

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Wed Apr 28 13:41:27 PDT 2010


This is not the usual cookbook by any means. What this book offers is  
a selection of recipes (well suggested ingredients and techniques) for  
recreating the breads and meat dishes that might have been eaten by  
the Hittites. Based on material evidence found in archaeological digs,  
mentions in Hittite texts, and experiments into what might have been  
eaten 3500 years ago.
Breads are covered on pages 94-169. If you like to experiment with  
early breads
(taking flour, salt, and water and attempting to make a loaf on a  
hearth) the experiments and recipes will be very interesting. The  
breads range from barley breads to flat breads to beer breads. There  
are color photos for almost every loaf.
Pages 170-197 are the meat dishes. The volume concludes with an  
extensive bibliography of mostly Turkish language sources.

 From TURKEY
Hittite Cookery
An Experimental Archaelogical Study
Asuman Albayrak, Ülkü M.Solak, Ahmet Uhri
ISBN: 978 9944 0188 1 4
Feb 2009
(Metro Cultural Publications)

Right now the book isn't listed in many libraries, so finding a copy  
may be difficult.

Johnnae




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