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Default Peter Reinhart On No-Knead Bread


Kenneth wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2006 20:58:47 -0800, "Leila"
> > wrote:
>
> >He has put up the nicest comment about the new bread phenomenon.

>
> Howdy,
>
> There is nothing "new" about these no-knead techniques.
>
> We've been commenting about them here for years, and I
> suspect that folks have baked this way for a few thousand
> years before that.


indeed the no-knead method seems to fit very well with the setup at
ancient egyptian bakeries discovered around the pyramids - and famously
recreated by Ed Wood

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/93-94/93-94_Giza.html

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