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Anthropology

Warpy

(113,131 posts)

9. The bubbles are under it, not through it

Reply to wnylib (Reply #8)

Thu Jun 22, 2023, 12:45 PM

Jun 2023

I imagine the first raised breads were invented when a slurry was left due to an emergency and retrieved the next day, bubbleing with wild yeast. Since heat kills off the bad stuff, they went ahead and dropped blobs of it on the hot rock. And so the crumpet was born.

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6,000-Year-Old Earth Ovens Discovered In Washington State [View all] Judi Lynn Jun 2023 OP

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Build Your Own Earth Oven $17.95 Goonch Jun 2023 #2

That over seems to challenge you to put anything in it, or take it out! Wow. Thanks. Judi Lynn Jun 2023 #7

That's about the time they found them in N. Africa Warpy Jun 2023 #3

Your second paragraph sounds like wnylib Jun 2023 #4

There's no leavening in what I've seen Warpy Jun 2023 #5

OK. It was the description of the slurry bubbling when wnylib Jun 2023 #8

The bubbles are under it, not through it Warpy Jun 2023 #9