Bread would go stale very quickly before the age of preservatives. People would commonly crumb or toast their bread a few days after they made/bought it in order to get more use out of it
Edit: for all the angry bread people telling me about their special 9kg sourdough bakery special that lasts for weeks so long as you dont slice it, you’re right, but not everyone before 2021 ate exclusively sourdough
Fun fact. Ancient Egyptian flour had sediment mixed in, so when they produce their bread it was actually abrasive to their teeth causing a lot of tooth decay among them.
catrkiller301 on June 22nd, 2021 at 09:48 UTC »
Bread would go stale very quickly before the age of preservatives. People would commonly crumb or toast their bread a few days after they made/bought it in order to get more use out of it
Edit: for all the angry bread people telling me about their special 9kg sourdough bakery special that lasts for weeks so long as you dont slice it, you’re right, but not everyone before 2021 ate exclusively sourdough
KlumF on June 22nd, 2021 at 12:16 UTC »
Toast?
That's the best thing since sliced bread.
zhangtastic on June 22nd, 2021 at 13:37 UTC »
Fun fact. Ancient Egyptian flour had sediment mixed in, so when they produce their bread it was actually abrasive to their teeth causing a lot of tooth decay among them.