| You hold bread in your hands every single day. | | | | device to knead dough and created so many |
| You have tasted it, you know how it smells and | | | | ovens, that it was able to produce about 18,000 |
| feels, but where does it come from originally? I | | | | pounds of bread a day. The old Romans were the |
| take you on a journey back into the time, when | | | | ones who established baking bread in all of Europe. |
| the first bread was baked and take you by your | | | | 4. The modern bakery |
| hand to have a walk through the history of bread. | | | | We are loosing ourselves a romantic idea of a |
| 1. The oldest bread recipe | | | | baker with a passionate smile on his face when |
| The origins of bread can be traced back into the | | | | he is looking at a loaf of bread. The modern truth |
| times when Mankind started to plant crop, that | | | | looks different as so often. The old bakery surely |
| was around 10,000 years ago. They used to | | | | has been bought by a big company, the dough is |
| make mash out of this crop, which quite simply | | | | produced in a factory and already formed into |
| was ground crop mixed with water. What fire did | | | | little pieces that just have to be placed in an oven. |
| to this mixture has set off an avalanche that | | | | It is easy, it is cheap and it is good. Because even |
| overcame the entire world. Since the year 5,000 | | | | though you might think companies are just trying |
| BC people were baking this mash on stones which | | | | to make money, they have to satisfy their |
| resulted in the still so popular flat bread. All bread | | | | customers to achieve this with their bread. |
| variations we know now are based on this simple | | | | 5. From handcraft to private bread machines |
| mash. | | | | Times have changed. Today you can have a |
| 2. The revolution of bread | | | | machine doing all the work for you. The art of |
| In ancient times nomads have brought the art of | | | | baking became the art of pushing a button. Now, |
| baking to Egypt. The old Egyptians developed | | | | does it make sense at all to bake bread at home, |
| baking bread further. They cultivated yeast as the | | | | when just a few steps will take you to a bakery |
| first people in history. They were also the first to | | | | that offers loads of different types of bread? To |
| construct ovens whose principles still work in | | | | answer this question we do not have to argue |
| modern ones. While baking over open fire left the | | | | with special interests. A bread machine provides |
| people with the possibility to make flat bread | | | | you with the possibility to choose which bread |
| alone, the first ovens got rid of this problem and | | | | you want to bake. It is on you to choose the |
| opened the door for the use of yeast in bread. | | | | bread recipe and its ingredients. One of the more |
| 3. How bread took over the world | | | | important things is, that your bread wont contain |
| The Roman Empire took notice of this new | | | | chemical add ons, which you are going to find in |
| invention and quickly adapted the art of baking | | | | any industrial bread out there. |
| bread. It started to build huge windmills, invented a | | | | |