The Magic of Fire, Traditional Foodways with William Rubel » Bread

While this is obvioulsy a tandoor style oven from ancient Greece, I have not been able to find confirming archeological evidence for tandoor oven from Greek archeological sites. If you know of ev...

https://williamrubel.com/2024/03/15/greek-bread-baking-methods/

Join me in attempting to bake a pumpernickel that is black through-and-through. Please post your results in the comments, and also on my Facebook Group, Bread History and Practice. Note: Just aft...

https://williamrubel.com/2024/01/02/trying-for-an-historic-pumpernickel/

This is an important Egyptian bread. While it is rarely reproduced. As far as I am aware, this is the only surviving Egyptian bread whose entire surface is marked with a stamped pattern. I would ...

https://williamrubel.com/2023/04/13/a-rare-egyptian-stamped-bread/

Ezekiel’s Vision, William Blake, (1803-05) There are many interpretation of “Ezekiel Bread” online, in cookbooks, and even in commercial products. While the most vocal interpretation is tha...

https://williamrubel.com/2023/02/22/ezekiel-bread/

These recipes were originally posted for people attending my Bread History and Practice Seminar #68 on American Bread, December 15, 2022. If you are attending the seminar, please make one of the ...

https://williamrubel.com/2022/12/07/american-bread-recipes-from-the-19th-century/

For much of the 19th century, American breads, were often made with cornmeal and If you can get a bread dough into the gelatinizing temperature range appropriate a given bread grain — in the 19...

https://williamrubel.com/2022/12/04/starch-gelatinization-and-starch-conversion-to-sugar-in-bread-dough/

A mix of rye and cornmeal, “Indian,” in the vocabulary of 19th century American cookbooks, was a common bread in New England for most of the 19th century. Emily Dickinson won second prize for...

https://williamrubel.com/2022/12/04/frugal-housewife-maria-child-rye-and-indian-bread/

It was in the 1830s that leavening bread with an alkaline salt first became an important leavening. There was substantive uptake of this modern leavening — calcium carbonate mixed with muriatic...

https://williamrubel.com/2022/11/15/american-soda-bread/

Hannah Glasse wrote her brilliant The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy in the 1740s. She is the first author to make the promise we know so well—I will show you how easy it is to make good fo...

https://williamrubel.com/2022/03/15/hannah-glasse-french-bread/

HOUSEHOLD BREAD By the time Eliza Acton began writing bread recipes, there was a very established bread recipe tradition. The tradition was to write the bread recipe out as a narrative. Basically...

https://williamrubel.com/2022/03/14/eliza-acton-household-bread-1857-a-bread-of-today/