How was the recipe for bread discovered?!
How was the recipe for bread discovered?
Answers:
You ask, "how," not, "when." If, by bread, you mean ground up grains formed into a solid mass and then heated, it happened because the grain itself was tough to eat. And so also, if the grain was crushed, the powder (flour) was tough to eat. However, add some water and now you have a "cake," which when heated or dried, can be munched on and easily carried around.
If you mean bread that rises -like the stuff you put in your toaster, the Egyptians received early credit for noticing that flour and water, if stirred up and then left to sit for awhile, would magically get bigger and fluffier. Some guys got pretty good at this, and they became palace bakers. Egyptian hieroglyphics from as far back as 6000 BC show loaves, and, as a matter of fact, some of the actual loves themselves, having survived over 5000 years are on display in museums. Really.
And of course the Bible mentions bread, both leavened and unleavened, many times. So that puts bread back as far as 5000-6000 years ago.
You ask how the recipe was "discovered." Recipes are not discovered -there wasn't an old copy of the Good Housekeeping cookbook sitting in a cave somewhere. Recipes are "invented," that is, someone writes down instructions for someone who DOESN'T know what to do. Looks like the Egyptians get the credit.