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Charred crumbs found in a middle-eastern desert show that bread-making dates back 14,000 years.

“Jordanian bread recipe from 14,000 years ago

Make flour from wild wheat and wild barley

Pound tubers (roots) of wild plants that grow in water (sedges or club- or bull-rushes) to a dry pulp

Mix together with water to make a batter or dough

Bake on hot stones around a fire.

The people living in the area at the time were hunter gatherers. (…) This happened before the advent of farming, when people started growing cereal crops and keeping animals. (…)

Our ancestors may have used the bread as a wrap for roasted meat. Thus, as well as being the oldest bread, it may also have been the oldest sandwich. “This is the earliest evidence we have for what we could really call a cuisine, in that it’s a mixed food product,” Prof Dorian Fuller of University College London told BBC News. “They’ve got flatbreads, and they’ve got roasted gazelle and so forth, and that’s something they are then using to make a meal.“”

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@copperbadge ancient bread!

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I wonder what the tubers did – I would guess they add flavor and possibly some elasticity? Mainly I wonder because while the crumbs apparently clearly indicate flatbread, I know that one way to grow wild yeast is to let mashed potatoes sit out for a while. So I wonder if the tubers aren’t some kind of cross-pollination with someone who had semi-leavened bread.

Gastropod had a podcast a while back about mustard which indicated that very early people were combining foods and flavors in a very chef-like fashion, so I think it’s good to remember that hunter-gatherers weren’t just eating food, they were intentionally cooking food and doing culinary experiments!

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I’m also intrigued by the tubers. Here’s my baseless theory: they were a byproduct of using the leaves and reeds for other things. Because when I think of bullrushes, I think about how the cattails are fantastic tinder for fires. And when I think of a lot of other water plants I think about them being dried and woven into every possible useful thing like baskets and mats and ropes and shoes. So what do you do with the tubers before you’ve learned about planting and regrowing? Eat ‘em, obviously. And hey, they’ve got flavors. Apparently sedge tubers taste like black pepper!

Anyway ancient foods are always a prime interest of mine. This is great stuff. I love the idea of folks getting together and making bread for a party, how that’s something that’s been in us since before we were us.

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Reblogging for these good additions!