Re:Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egy...
by coldcode on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:18AM
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Would be fun to taste the bread, especially if they can validate it is ancient yeasts. I know people have brewed beer using ancient yeasts.
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Re:Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egy...
by war1025 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:43AM
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Not directly related to your comment, but a book I read recently was tangentially related and really interesting "Never Home Alone" [1].
It is basically about all the life around us that we don't notice, from microbes to insects, etc.
He had a section where he talked about the yeast we use for wine production coming originally from wasps who land on the grapes.
And also a section where they had 20 or so bakers from different regions each use the same initial sour dough starter and then agree to feed it for like 6 months or something and at the end they all got together and each baker made a loaf of bread using their sour dough culture. The purpose of the experiment was to see how the local environment affected what grew in the starters and how that would affect taste.
I thought it was a super interesting book.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39088985-never-home-alon...