When was bread discovered?!
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Bread is one of the oldest prepared foods. Evidence from 30,000 years ago in Europe revealed starch residue on rocks used for pounding plants. It is possible that during this time, starch extract from the roots of plants, such as cattails and ferns, was spread on a flat rock, placed over a fire and cooked into a primitive form of flatbread. Around 10,000 BC, with the dawn of the Neolithic age and the spread of agriculture, grains became the mainstay of making bread. Yeast spores are ubiquitous, including the surface of cereal grains, so any dough left to rest will become naturally leavened. There were multiple sources of leavening available for early bread.
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I believe bread as a mainstay source of carbohydrate started when man became more settled and started farming. Mesolithic period. Before that they were mainly hunter/gathers.
What amazes me is who came up with the idea to smash a load of grain, add water, mix together and cook it. Someone had to have had the original idea. Or maybe it is like most things humans have discovered or created; pure accident and chance.
Egyptians used to make bread loaves in flower pot shaped clay pots a couple of thousand years ago. The Essene peoples used to sprout wheat berries and then crush them together and leave the loaves to dry in the sun.
Any ancient culture would use grains, nuts, seed, and dried roots to make a form of flat bread or cakes.
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bread is prehistoric - every ancient culture known used some form of bread, and stone-age tools often include implements for grinding grains into flour.
not sure but wasnt the first bread flat?! and i believe the Egyptians discovered it then Greeks picked it up :) i think 1000BC
It wasn't discovered. It was made.
And not sure when. Quite early on I think
around 1000 BC