Bread
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Bread is a baked food product made from water, flour, and often yeast. It is a staple food across the world, particularly in Europe and the Middle East. Throughout recorded history and around the worl
Various leavened breads
Woman baking bread (c. 2200 BC); Louvre
Brown bread (left) and whole grain bread
Dark sprouted bread
Flatbread
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A flatbread is bread typically made with flour, water, and salt, with or without leavening, which are mixed and rolled into flattened dough. They are usually baked quickly at high temperatures and ran
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…starch extract from the roots of plants, such as cattails and ferns, was spread on a flat rock, placed over a fire and cooked into a primitive form of flatbread. The oldest evidence of bread-making has been found in a 14,500-year-old Natufian site in Jordan's northeastern desert. Around 10,000 BC, with the dawn…
A flatbread
Flatbreads vary in size and shape, such as this thick focaccia and thin chapati.
Flatbreads made of rye (left) and potato flour (right)
Flatbread ingredients may include fruits or seeds.