So where did this particularly delicious food originate?
Bread originated from a rough gravel-shaped flat cake. The earliest people who baked this kind of flat cake may be the lakeside residents of Switzerland in the Stone Age. More than 8,000 years ago, these people knew how to crush grains, soak them in water, and then bake them on hot stones.
Historians trace fermented bread back to Egypt in 6000 BC. At that time, wild yeast probably invaded the dough and produced the world's first bread. The Egyptians later invented the oven, which turned baking bread into a craft, and created more than fifty different shapes, round, cubic, twisted and animal-shaped.
Later, "bread was introduced to Rome through Greece, and it was improved and spread to the European continent"; With the help of science and technology, European countries have continuously improved their bread-making technology, and now the bread of all countries in the world has been integrated with the local essence.
1936, an expedition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art found some bread 3,500 years ago in the assef Valley. To the surprise of the scientists in the expedition, some of them are almost like modern rye bread.
? Origin of bread: 4000 BC?
1. Bread originated from Mesopotamian civilization.
2. Sumerians and Simens invented flat toast with wild wheat-the unfermented dough was baked directly with fire or smoldered in a hot cellar.
? Improvement of bread: BC 1700?
1. Bread was introduced into the Nile valley and was used by ancient Egyptians as a sacrifice to the gods. ?
2. The ancient Egyptians discovered natural yeast and made it into a "fermentation bag".
As the staple food of ancient Egyptians, bread gradually diversified in style, variety and taste, and Egyptians were called "bread family".
Bread technology spread to Mesopotamia, Iran and India, and was carried forward. ?
? The development of baking: BC 1000?
1, Phoenicians introduced bread-making technology into ancient Greece.
2. The Greeks invented a honeycomb low dome sealed oven with better heat preservation. ?
3. The Greeks improved Egyptian bread and produced representative products, such as Apopylian and Kollix.
The Greeks began to cultivate yeast to make bread.
5. The use of hourglass mill improves the milling process, output and flour quality.
6. Professional bakers and bakeries appeared, and baking gradually succeeded. ?
BC 1200: The Romans invented the flat oven. ?
? Modern baking? Development of technology
1870: the bread mixer was invented, and the machine gradually replaced manual production, resulting in greater bread output and more uniform quality. ?
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were many kinds of food, and the staple food status of bread was gradually replaced by meat.
Nowadays, there are many kinds of baked goods, natural food is popular and bread has high nutritional value. Frozen dough entered the market, and semi-finished bakeries prevailed.
History of baking in China
※ ? During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Italian missionaries introduced bread-making methods to China, but it did not arouse people's interest. ?
※ ? Late Ming Dynasty and Early Qing Dynasty: German missionaries introduced bread-making technology to coastal cities. ?
※ ? 1897: When the Russians built the railway in the northeast, they introduced the bread-making technology to the northeast. Bread-making technology was gradually introduced to the mainland from Shanghai, Qingdao, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Harbin and other places, and it still stays in handicraft production. ?
※ ? After the reform and opening up, the advanced baking technology and technology were introduced, which made the baking industry flourish and gradually integrated with the international market.