If you get the Food Network, Anthony Bourdain on "A Cooks Tour" watched
nomadic people of the Sahara make this bread on one episode - he said that
it had no sand whatsoever stuck to it.
It's completely unlike a hoecake as there is a yeast leavened loaf that is
literally flopped raw into a sand dune and covered with hot coals to bake.
The outside wasn't even burnt when they got finished.

Here's a little about the rest of the episode:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show..._20289,00.html

"Dr Pepper" > wrote in message
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> Sounds like HOECAKES to me, , , , ,
> Bread cooked on a hoe over a charcoal fire.???
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> Ron C.
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> On 05 Jan 2004 10:10:06 -0500, Allan Adler >
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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?
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> >Ignorantly,
> >Allan Adler
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