Bread

Bread is the staple food for many people around the world. It is a mix of wheat flour, salt, yeast, sugar, sodium bicarbonate and other ingredients. It is baked in ovens which can be electric bread toasters or can be of made from stone and have been used since ancient times. It is usually a fawn brown colour but it can also be light or dark brown and which is the product of baking. The fragrance of freshly baked bread can rival the aroma of the finest wine. Bread comes in many shapes and sizes. They can be rectangular, square, round and others like the French Baguette are long and the French Croissant is shaped like a pair of horns. Some shapes like those found in modern Egypt have not changed when the mighty Pharaohs summoned great works of monumental engineering and architecture. Some are flat like the Spanish tortilla and the Indian chapatti. Some bread is not made from wheat flour but corn and did you know that the Romans used crushed acorns. Bread in any form when introduced to a culture unacquainted with it, grasps it as a symbol of advancement and sophistication. You can eat bread with butter, margarine, jam, and jelly or you can place fish, meat and vegetables on it and enjoy it as a sandwich. It can be eaten toasted or eaten accompanied with soups and meat. Bread can be dunked in a mixture of condensed milk and beaten eggs and toasted either one side or both on a flat pan which the English called “Eggy bread” and the Indians call “Bombay toast”. The ancient Egyptians workers who worked at pyramid construction were paid in bread and the Christian religion upholds the belief that bread symbolized the body of Christ, the son of God. So the next time you sit down to have your first meal of the day, do not think of the meal as breakfast but as “Breadfast”.