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Bread throughout History 8000 B.C.

• Evidence in theMiddle East of wheatbeing cultivated andharvested

6000 B.C.

• Fossilized remains ofbread loaves weredated to 6000 B.C.

• They found naturallyfermented flat bread

2600 B.C.• Egyptians leavened

bread• Hieroglyphics show

breadmaking• Evidence of emmer

species of wheat• Egyptians developed

50 types of bread

1000 B.C.

Invention ofthe wheel forgrindingwheat intoflour

240 B.C.

First book ofbreadformulas

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200 A.D. - Roman Empire

• Rome had a baker’sguild

• The guild was anorganized professionwith rules andregulations

Middle Ages

• After the Fall of theRoman Empire the artof breadmaking waslost until the MiddleAges

Baking 2005

Bread has come along way!

Baking 2005