> 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."
>
> 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?

I've done this, it's a standard way of making Indian chapatties. The
gritty stuff just falls off. But NOT "enough to feed a whole band" in
one lump - sounds like a good way to end up with charcoal-coated goo.
Chapatties are never very big.

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