Peasant bread refers to the bread under the traditional craft, which is shaped like a cross section on a round cake. This is the most common form of bread in European history. Bread can be white bread or black bread.

Cross steamed bread in the picture

Bread shapes, which were still widely made in the Middle Ages, needed to be baked at a high temperature of 350℃. Butter needs to be added to the dough, after fermentation, it is made into a hemispherical shape, and the cross is cut from it and baked in the oven for 20 minutes.

Medieval people baked bread.

20-30cm in diameter.

Butter tastes salty, tastes powdery and has a certain hardness.

In addition to bread as food, people in the Middle Ages often used it as a plate. Just like big wooden plates in the past, bread was cut into flat and thick pieces. Then other things like meat or thick sauce will be put on the bread. When the meat is finished, you should also eat bread. So far, it is still a special food in Sweden.