The History of Bread

Bread is a key item in our diets and is sometimes referred to as the “staff of life”. Bread has been eaten for thousands of years by people of all backgrounds and religions in countries all over the world. Many different types of bread have been originated from countries.

Man first began eating a crude basic of flat bread, which is a baked combination of flour and water in about 10,000B.C.

The first record of baked, leavened bread was made by the Ancient Egyptians in 3,000B.C. The Egyptians began to ferment a flour and water mixture by using wild yeast, which was present tin the air. Wheat soon became the favourite grain to be used over others such as oats, millets and rice, because of the amount of gluten it contained was sufficient to make raised leavened bread. The Egyptians were also responsible for crafting the first oven, which was used to bake several loaves of bread at a time. Bread was used as a way to pay people for their input into the construction of the pyramids....