AliB
Well-Known Member
I don't know how the 'Ezekiel' bread is made - never had any, but my understanding of sprouted grain bread is that it is best dehydrated rather than baked, as then the enzymes are all still intact - which is a big reason why you sprout it in the first place.....
If it is in a 'loaf' then it probably has been baked, but what I saw when I was doing research on this was that the ideal way is to make small round 'cakes' or biscuit shapes and dry them in a dehydrator or low oven.
In ancient times they probably built a bread oven out of clay and would have the experience of how hot it should be to cook the bread properly - and what - or how much fuel to use to get it to the right heat. Here we are in the 21st century totally reliant on our thermostats, and gadgets and gizmos, but these were intelligent people who learned through experience and passed down wisdom from one generation to the next.
I tell you what, if everything collapsed and Tesco et al wasn't there any more, they would have a darn sight better understanding of how to take care of themselves than we would. We have become way too dependent on this system.
The 'Human Planet' series featured people living in all sorts of environs in the Earth. In the one about life in the jungle there was a group that would build their houses 70 foot up in the trees. They had no theodolites, or spirit levels, or cranes, yet they would build sturdy structures up in the canopy - hauling all the timber up there by hand, and cutting it precisely with axes, with no University education, or architectural or quantity surveyor qualifications.
And we call them 'primitive'.....
We forget that the Human Race existed for thousands of years before our technological age, and believe it or not, they knew what they were doing a darn sight better than we do....
If it is in a 'loaf' then it probably has been baked, but what I saw when I was doing research on this was that the ideal way is to make small round 'cakes' or biscuit shapes and dry them in a dehydrator or low oven.
In ancient times they probably built a bread oven out of clay and would have the experience of how hot it should be to cook the bread properly - and what - or how much fuel to use to get it to the right heat. Here we are in the 21st century totally reliant on our thermostats, and gadgets and gizmos, but these were intelligent people who learned through experience and passed down wisdom from one generation to the next.
I tell you what, if everything collapsed and Tesco et al wasn't there any more, they would have a darn sight better understanding of how to take care of themselves than we would. We have become way too dependent on this system.
The 'Human Planet' series featured people living in all sorts of environs in the Earth. In the one about life in the jungle there was a group that would build their houses 70 foot up in the trees. They had no theodolites, or spirit levels, or cranes, yet they would build sturdy structures up in the canopy - hauling all the timber up there by hand, and cutting it precisely with axes, with no University education, or architectural or quantity surveyor qualifications.
And we call them 'primitive'.....
We forget that the Human Race existed for thousands of years before our technological age, and believe it or not, they knew what they were doing a darn sight better than we do....