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Who was the first baker?

Wherever you go in the world, from primitive tribes to the finest restaurants in big cities, you will find that people eat bread, although it may be different. Bread is wheat or rye flour made into dough and baked. The Egyptians were probably the first to bake bread around 3000 BC.

Although the Jews also baked bread in ancient times, and the Egyptians discovered yeast. With the advent of yeast, it became possible to let the dough rise. So tall loaves of bread appeared, and the Jews baked their bread with thin pancakes, flat cakes. We mostly eat bread made from wheat. After all, only wheat contains vegetable protein. When baking, this protein helps to ensure that the loaf is taller and fluffier. The bread is light and tasty. Rye flour does not have this quality, so it is often mixed with wheat flour.

We also eat biscuits, muffins, buns and the like. They are baked from wheat, corn, rice, rye, oat flour.

Cornbread, cakes, muffins are baked from cornmeal. In different countries of the world, what is commonly called "bread" is made from a variety of products. In Mexico, a tortilla is baked from corn. In Scotland, they eat a large Scotch cake - a type of fried oatmeal cake. Swedes love flat, coarse, heavy bread made from rye flour.

Jews have been celebrating Passover for a thousand years by baking an unleavened bread called matzah. It is made from flour and water mixed and baked like a cracker or waffle. This dough is not fermented, it does not contain those substances that would help it rise. In some countries peas are added to bread, in others rice, and in the Far East even acorns!

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