The aroma of freshly-baked bread is one of the most tempting smells in the world and baking your own bread is one of the most gratifying things to do. Asrashaheen.in brings you some fascinating crumbs of bread titbits.
“With a piece of bread in your hand you’ll find paradise under a pine tree.” This Russian proverb nails it perfectly when it comes to describing the little joys in life of having a bare essential staple such as bread to make you feel complete, content and comforting. In fact, the ongoing pandemic has made us realize like never before the importance of good health and the priceless joys it brings with itself. One of them being the ability to relish the most simplest of foods! For it is only in the pink of health that you get to heartily rejoice a meal no matter how simple and unpretentious it is. Bread is indeed one of those quintessential of foods in the world. Known by different names in different regions and cultures globally, bread is one stable on the table that comes in numerous sizes, shapes, and forms but what’s common is its indispensability.
Some interesting ‘bites’ of bread facts
- During WWII, selling freshly-baked bread was prohibited according to rationing laws because just-baked bread is so tasty that people are likely to eat it unrestrainedly. The bread for sale had to be at least 24 hours stale!
- A bakery in San Francisco is known for making sourdough bread since 166 years. But wait a minute. The interesting part is that every loaf of sourdough bread they bake has a portion of the “mother dough” made in 1849 contained in it.
- It has been found that bread gets stale 6 times faster in the refrigerator than at room temperature.
- Long before the pencil eraser was invented, soft bread crumbs were used to erase pencil marks.
- A 2,000-year-old bread loaf was unearthed at Herculaneum excavations, and the recipe was recreated by The British Museum.
- Wanna know what makes bread taste sweeter? Well, it’s how much you chew! Yes, the longer you chew, your saliva breaks down starch into sugars and the bread tastes sweeter.
- Bread and wine was the first meal consumed on the moon! Buzz Aldrin carried the communion bread and wine and held communion after landing.
