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To: C19fan
...this bread predates the invention of agriculture by at least 4,000 years.

I DON'T THINK SO.....................

2 posted on 07/18/2018 6:39:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world discovered the TRUTH......Q Anon)
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To: Red Badger

The grains that we grow as crops have wild precursors. It is possible that hunter gatherers collected these, ground them up, added water then baked them.


4 posted on 07/18/2018 6:42:44 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Red Badger

Actually, gathering of wild growing species of edible grains would have preceded intentional planting of selected varieties (agriculture). Beyond that, all you need to make dough is for the grains to get wet and the same wild yeasts that make sour dough would cause fermentation. Throw it on a fire (or invent a clay oven to bake it in) and you’ve got bread! Bonus: Let the grains soak and ferment in a vat of water and you’ll get a primitive sort of beer! Whether beer predated bread, or the other way around, would make a more interesting debate.


20 posted on 07/18/2018 7:02:13 AM PDT by katana
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