More like about 10,000 years ago when humans started farming and agriculture to grow crops at scale to make bread … then at about the same time they domesticated cows in order to harvest milk and figure out how to make and store butter.
The earliest known bread recipe dates back approximately 14,500 years, discovered in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan, where charred remains of a pita-like flatbread were found.
It’s pretty hard not to use yeast. It’s everywhere and if you wait long it enough it’ll start to ferment. Look at what some Orthodox Jews go through to make unleavened bread.
I got the opposite of whet you meant at first, did you mean ‘to prevent it from leavening at all’? I found this in wiki and only then did I got it:
Dough is considered to begin the leavening process 18 minutes from the time it gets wet; sooner if eggs, fruit juice, or milk is added to the dough. The entire process of making matzah takes only a few minutes in efficient modern matzah bakeries.
More like about 10,000 years ago when humans started farming and agriculture to grow crops at scale to make bread … then at about the same time they domesticated cows in order to harvest milk and figure out how to make and store butter.
The earliest known bread recipe dates back approximately 14,500 years, discovered in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan, where charred remains of a pita-like flatbread were found.
Man, it must have been hella stale by then.
Nothing a little water and microwave can’t fix
Just gotta put a glass of water next to it
And “only” 5000 years if you count when people started using yeast for bread production, since the bread ain’t the same without yeast.
Behold! The bread hierarchy!
Flour + water = hardtack
Flour + water + yeast = bread
Flour + water + yeast + butter = toast
Flour + water + leavener + butter + sugar = muffin
Flour + water + leavener + butter + sugar + eggs = cake
Flour + water + leavener + butter + sugar + eggs + chocolate = brownie
Flour + water + leavener + butter + sugar + eggs + chocolate + cream = cupcake
+ weed
It’s pretty hard not to use yeast. It’s everywhere and if you wait long it enough it’ll start to ferment. Look at what some Orthodox Jews go through to make unleavened bread.
I got the opposite of whet you meant at first, did you mean ‘to prevent it from leavening at all’? I found this in wiki and only then did I got it:
Sorry for the confusion. This 18 minutes thing was exactly what I tried to say!
There are plenty of bread without yeast.
Yes there are, but the one in the picture clearly was made with yeast.
We gatekeeping bread now?
I know this, and you know this. Shh. Don’t ruin the meme
Pre-agricultural humans did still have access to flour and milk though.
But what did they milk to make butter?