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

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Dalby:
 
"Wheat was the preferred staple food of the classical world... bread wheat  
for raised bread. The two obvious alternative cereals, barley and emmer,... 
were  of little use for bread."

_https://books.google.com/books?id=KdR4jRJCxEsC&lpg=PA349&dq=inauthor%3Adalb
y%20wheat&pg=PA349#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(https://books.google.com/books?id=KdR4jRJCxEsC&lpg=PA349&dq=inauthor:dalby%20wheat&pg=PA349#v=onepage&q&f=false
) 
 
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Late medieval bread outside  Paris
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2015/07/french-bread-history-late-medieval.html









In a message dated 8/13/2015 7:53:42 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
t.d.decker at att.net writes:

but the  Roman 
meal would likely have been from emmer rather than modern common  wheat.