Bedouin bread
Allan Adler > nattered on
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> I'm enjoying Inea BUSHNAQ's book, Arab Folktales, published by
> Pantheon Books, 1986. On p.47, she describes bread being cooked in the
> following manner by a member of a raiding party: "He mixed flour with
> water, enough to feed a whole band that is hungry and worn. He buried
> the flat dough in hot ashes and covered it with sand. Then he waited."
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> I think that if I tried to do this, I would wind up eating a lot of
> sand and ashes. Does someone know more precise instructions for this
> method of baking bread?
Tony Bourdain liked it.
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