Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast

Seamus Blackley tweeted this incredible thread about how he was able to bake bread using 4,500-year-old yeast extracted from ancient Egyptian pottery. It’s so crazy that it worked and is probably the coolest bread nerd story of all time. I would love to try this epic ancient grain bread:

Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast
Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast
Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast
Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast

Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast
Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast
Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast
Baking Bread With 4500-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Yeast

Source: Seamus Blackley

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