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Smell the life-sustaining scent. No meal is complete without bread!
Note: This is for Panhistoria, a roleplay. Due to the current pestilence, I've included some ancient Egyptian "health" ideas!
Barley
Chickpea flour
Coarsely cracked grain
Durah, a kind of millet
Emmer wheat, conical loaves
Spelt
Wheat
Whole grain
Cumin-flavored
Coriander seed flavored
Herbed
Garlic -- good for vitality! New!
Nuts
Nutty Garlic - with toasted nuts, salt and garlic New!
Onion - good for sciatica New!
Sesame seed - good for asthma New!
Thick loaf with filled center of beans or vegetables
Raised edges to hold eggs, etc.
Buns
Crescents
Disks
Flatbread
Hexagonal
Pyramids
Round loaves and ovals
Spirals
Stewed grain gruel
Baked groats
Equipment Used
On a griddle
From a conical stove
Anise-flavored cakes
Date cakes and loaves
Date honey cakes - mashed dates with goat’s milk, butter, and honey New!
Dough balls - fried in oil, rolled in cinnamon or honey New!
Fig cakes and conical loaves
Grape pastries - emmer wheat and grape juice, formed into spirals New!
Honey cakes - a favorite - honey is an antibiotic, and during this season, we're adding extra honey!
Licorice cakes - good for chest and respiratory problems New!
Sweet pastries, various
Sweet wine cakes
Tiger nut (chuffa) and honey cakes - Tiger nuts are tubers. Shaped as a cone.
Tiger nut balls - chopped tiger nuts, dates, honey and spices, formed into small balls and fried in oil. New!
Your choice of the bread in shapes associated with Osiris:
Bennu bird. As a bennu bird, Osiris led spirits through underworld dangers.
Djed (by New Kingdom) - either a pillar from a tamarisk tree, or Osiris' backbone
Mummified god on throne wearing atef crown, dyed green
Atef crown - Tall Hedjet crown of Upper Egypt with curly red ostrich feathers on either side of the crown. Maat wears a single ostrich feather. The Hedjet (no feathers) was used in predynastic times.
Tamarisk tree - Osiris' coffin ends up in Byblos and a tamarisk tree (shrub or small tree), grows over it. The tree is cut down and turned into a pillar (the died), and Isis gets the pillar and extracts Osiris' coffin.
I make my breads with the finest materials, including my bedja or bread molds.
Hungry? Pick up your "I buy bread at the Market" graphic.
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