National Homemade Bread Day

Homemade bread.  Who doesn’t love that?  Do you have a favorite bread recipe?  Is it white bread, wheat bread, multigrain or sourdough?

We can smell the goodness coming out of the oven as we write this.

You can find a type of bread in just about every country in the world.  Some are familiar and others might be new.

We thought we’d share a few to give you some ideas of what to bake!

Italy has focaccia bread.  Focaccia bread has been around since the Romans.  A blend of yeast, flour, a small amount of sugar and olive oil come together to make a light and airy bread.

Head over to Ireland and you find the soda bread.  The British had a hand in this that involves flour, baking soda, buttermilk and a touch of salt.  Delicious with a cup of tea.

The Middle East has a couple of different breads.

Chapati is from India.  One of the oldest forms of bread and is enjoyed in India, Africa and the Middle East.  Flatbread and unleavened, you need a special flour called Atta to make it.

Matzo is another unleavened bread prominent in the Jewish culture.  It is used during Passover and is made into a matzo ball soup.

Two more breads take us to Ethiopia and Mexico.

In Ethiopia, injera is an unleavened flatbread.  Africa has many different grains and starches, one of which is called teff.  Injera is made from this.  

Cooked on an open flame it is a spongy, pancake-like bread.

Finally, from the Mayan culture there are tortillas popular in Mexico and other latin countries. These started as a rather complicated processing of corn to make a flat bread.  Flour was introduced later for flour tortillas too.

Here is one we found from All Recipes:  www.allrecipes.com/recipe/272420/easy-100-whole-wheat-bread/ 

Private Home Health Care loves to indulge in homemade bread.  What will you bake?  

Happy Baking!