[Sca-cooks] British Museum and a Roman Bread recipe

[Guillanedv]

‎Interesting, but what he demos in the video is not the "recipe" as posted. The picture of the Pompeii loaf looks more like focaccio, while his loaf is more raised.

Maybe the original was not scored but the portion marks were simply pressed into the rising loaf.

Guillane

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Subject: [Sca-cooks] British Museum and a Roman Bread recipe

FWx carried this item this am: "This Bread Recipe is Older than the Colosseum"


"On August 24 in 79 A.D., just before Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum and preserved their ruins in ash, a baker put his last loaf of bread into the oven. The baker would not live to see the final product. But now, millennia later, archaeologists discovered it in an oven. With the help of the British Museum's instructional video, you can re-create this ancient loaf of bread and eat like the ancient Pompeians. 

The British Museum commissioned this re-creation from Giorgio Locatelli, an Italian chef based in the United Kingdom. His recipe calls for three kinds of flour, yeast, salt, water and gluten; the full recipe can be found on the British Museum's site. Unless your oven measures in centigrade, you may need some help converting."

HTTP://WWW.FOODANDWINE.COM/FWX/BREAD-RECIPE-OLDER-COLOSSEUM?XID=NL_FWX081315THISBREADRECIPE


http://tinyurl.com/ljjau45 for the British Museum recipe and video.

Johnnae



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