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The evolution of bread
Feb. 4th, 2010 06:07 pmSo, I've really been enjoying my homemade bread. Today was cinnamon toast made with it for breakfast. I told ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haikujaguar over Twitter that the homemade bread version just tastes better. I like the flavor and the texture so much more.
What a reversal!
About 60 years ago, the pinnacle of bread was Wonder Bread and similar brands. White, fluffy, sweet. Didn't go stale very quickly, came already sliced and ready to go. ("Best thing since sliced bread" was not an empty slogan.) 60 years before that, bread had to be bought from a bakery and sliced by hand.
And here we are. We have rediscovered whole wheat and other flavors. White bread has to be enriched to compete with its whole wheat and similar cousins.
And I can sit down and put aside all the modern conveniences that would have so dazzled a colonial American in favor of homemade bread. Baked myself. Just a little denser and coarser, but oh, so much flavor that I love.
Truly, we live in a strange society compared to other times.
Oh, yes. The UK Federation of Bakers have a Britain-centric timeline of bread here: http://www.bakersfederation.org.uk/antiquity.aspx
haikujaguar over Twitter that the homemade bread version just tastes better. I like the flavor and the texture so much more.What a reversal!
About 60 years ago, the pinnacle of bread was Wonder Bread and similar brands. White, fluffy, sweet. Didn't go stale very quickly, came already sliced and ready to go. ("Best thing since sliced bread" was not an empty slogan.) 60 years before that, bread had to be bought from a bakery and sliced by hand.
And here we are. We have rediscovered whole wheat and other flavors. White bread has to be enriched to compete with its whole wheat and similar cousins.
And I can sit down and put aside all the modern conveniences that would have so dazzled a colonial American in favor of homemade bread. Baked myself. Just a little denser and coarser, but oh, so much flavor that I love.
Truly, we live in a strange society compared to other times.
Oh, yes. The UK Federation of Bakers have a Britain-centric timeline of bread here: http://www.bakersfederation.org.uk/antiquity.aspx
