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koebelin t1_ixm2s6n wrote

Reply to comment by Paltenburg in Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers used culinary seasoning in food preparation, according to analysis of the oldest charred food remains ever found by marketrent

I too am very surprised. They mashed up seeds and made a bread? I guess when your only tech is fire you eventually cook everything and find out what works.

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TheGreat_War_Machine t1_ixm6b2l wrote

Bread is such a basic item that you'd be surprised by how little you actually need to make it. Sure, you may not get a product that's like what you'd find on the store shelf, but it offers the same benefits for paleolithic peoples.

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ensalys t1_ixmf01h wrote

Yeah, crush up the seeds of certain kinds of grasses, mix it well with some water, add some heat, and you have the simplest kind of bread. Of course, it won't be a nice fluffy (you'll need fungi farts for that) bread with a crispy crust, but it's bread.

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madarbrab t1_ixmjoic wrote

Just leave the mash out for a few days, it'll pick up some wild yeast

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Bladelink t1_ixn3dah wrote

It probably wouldn't take long to go from some yeasty bread to a sourdough, where you realize you can just keep using the same dough.

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