ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BAKING BREAD

Wherever you go in the world, from the most primitive savage tribes to the most elegant restaurants in the big cities, you will find that people eat bread in one form or another. Bread is simply the flour or meal of cereals after it has been mixed into a dough and baked.

The Egyptians were probably the first to make bread, about 3000 B.C. While the Hebrews were also making bread in ancient times, it was the Egyptians who discovered yeast. By using yeast, they were able to make the dough rise, and so had “loaves” of bread, while the Hebrews baked their bread in thin sheets.