Types of Bread
This classic French bread is famous for its long, thin shape and crip crust, translating literally to “wand” or “baton.”
What is Baguette?
When was the first evidence of flour discovered?
What is 30,000 years ago during Upper Paleolithic era?
What were the first types of bread made?
Flatbreads (unleavened-without yeast)
This pungent, minced bulb is often folded into sourdough or baked on top of focaccia, providing a classic savory bite.
What is garlic?
This wild-fermented bread gets its signature tangy flavor from a lactic acid-producing starter culture rather than commercial baker’s yeast?
What is sourdough?
When did cereals and bread become a staple food?
What is about 10,000 years ago during the Neolithic era?
What do makers mean when they talk about “wild fermentation’?
What is using naturally occurring ambient yeasts to raise their bread?
Daily Double
This wrinkled fruit is the star add-in of a classic sweet breakfast loaf, almost always paired with a swirl of cinnamon?
What is raisins?
Often pocketed to hold falafel or gyro meat, this round flatbread is a staple throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East.
What is pita?
As far back as the Bronze Age, people in many areas often baked bread by pasting it to the inside of a clay oven. What modern bread is still made that way?
What is Naan?
When baking French bread, it’s usual to spray the inside of the oven with water, why?
What is to improve the texture of the crust?
Bakers often laminate this dairy product directly into dough to create gooey pockets in the crumb?
What is cheese?
Traditional Jewish braided bread, typically enriched with eggs and oil, and eaten on Sabbath and holidays?
What is challah?
Daily Double
During the Middle ages, stale, thick slabs of coarse bread were frequently used as edible plates or platters before being eaten or given to the poor?
What are trenchers?
What industry generally supplied the yeast for bakers in England and continental Europe before the development of commercial yeasts?
What is beer brewing?
These small, Mediterranean stone fruits are chopped and added to rustic loaves, giving them a salty, briny kick?
What is olives?
This dark, dense German rye bread is traditionally baked using a low-temperature, long, slow-steaming process that caramelizes its natural sugars?
What is pumpernickel?
Which yeast-raised bread was developed in early 19th-centry Bath, England, possible by a Huguenot baker with the same name?
Who is Sally Lunn?
Bread recipes from England in the 17th and 18th centuries often start by directing the baker to “start a barm”. What does that mean?
What is to prepare a live yeast culture?
Named for an Italian town, this variety of sun-dried tomatoes is a popular add-in, often paired with basil or rosemary?
What are San Marzano tomatoes?