[Sca-cooks] Yeast and Bread in Norway

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

I completely forgot about the Eddas, which, though recorded in Iceland, are 
 generally treated as reflecting early Germanic/Scandinavian culture.



p. 78 " Then Edda from the  ashes took a loaf, heavy and thick, and with 
bran mixed; more besides she laid on  the

 
middle of the board;"

 
Being thick, probably leavened, and mixed with bran, probably  of wheat. 
But I would guess it was leavened with sourdough (not being  light).

 




p. 79 "She then took thin cakes of snow white wheat, and on the  table 
laid."

 
These sound very much like flatbread.





http://fax.libs.uga.edu/PT7234xE211/1f/the_eddas.pdf
 
jC

 
Jim  Chevallier
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