Can you guess what it is?
More importantly, what ingredient gives it its colour?
The first person to comment to the question with the right answer will win this ingredient.
ΓΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΕΔΩ
QUIZ
- In olden times people used to make special breads, at New Year, for the animals as well as for the family
- EDIBLE HISTORY #2~ GOING BYZANTINE
Chestnut flour.WOW that was good.
Emanuel yes!! The color comes from chrestnut flour. E-mail me your address and I’ll send you a packet of a wonderful Greek chestnut flour.
Stamatia, Christina, Maria… sorry!! 🙂
It’s bread made from Teff flour.
Chestnut flour. The color comes from chestnuts as they dry.
Barley?
Amaranth flour, but I would have thought that either wine or ashes gave the color to the product.
Acorn?
Tania, Maria, in the past, this sort of flour that produces the dark colour was a staple food, indeed the only resource for ‘the very poor man’s bread’! Today it has been revived as a luxury ingredient.
My first thought was a spiced bread or rusk … as for the darkening ingredient, I’d say a dark whole wheat flour.
ok, I’m having another stab at it.
The only dark coloured thing that comes to mind is olives.
I’m going with olive flour. Is there such a thing?
The colour is neither molasses nor rye flour. However this darkening effect has been produced by a sort of flour.
I’m thinking rye flour or molasses.
Yanni, yeast? No,no!
This is not carob nor is it petimezi.
Yeast
πετιμέζι?
χαρούπι?