How do you get different types of bread? First, it depends on the choice of ingredients - flour or grits? Refined or peeled? Wheat, rye or corn? Whole grain or ground? On water, on oil or on milk? And, finally, the skill ... After all, it is not for nothing that the best baguettes, for example, are made in France, despite the export of technology! What kind of bread is eaten in Northern and Southern Europe? The French are crazy about wheat flour, which comes first in bread making in France, while Northern Europe prefers rye flour. Pumpernickel, rye rye bread and molasses with a very thick crumb, are most popular in Germany.
What is bread
Whole grain breads are popular in Sweden (frombarley, rye, malt), is also very famous Swedish (or polar) bread, baked from rye and wheat flour without yeast. Bread cakes, very thin, but extremely soft, slightly sweetened, ideal for making sandwiches. Closer to the south of Europe in bakeries rye is less and less common, giving way to olive oil, used in many Mediterranean countries for baking soft, fragrant and juicy bread. So, in Italy, focaccia, hard tortillas with salt and olive oil, decorated with herbs, olives, cheese, are an addition to any table. In the eastern Mediterranean, pita bread is particularly popular. Round hollow flat cakes suitable for all dishes.
Bread with ham
Bread with OlivesBread in AfricaIn the Maghreb formaking bread used wheat cereal. Sometimes olive oil is added to it to bake cakes, for example, bread of matlu (round hearth bread), tamtun (Kabili bread with yeast) and msemenmen (Moroccan flat bread). Recipes in different countries differ from each other. Also in Africa, bread from local varieties of cereals is popular: cassava, patata, and others. In Asia, they also like bread! Despite their care for their body, Asian people eat bread every day, even with rice and pasta. This bread is softer than in France, and in Japan it is used to make toasts and sandwiches. In India and neighboring countries there is the famous naan, flat yeast bread made from wheat flour. Its most famous variety is naan with cheese, but it is also cooked with herbs and onions. Small pancakes chapati are also suitable for any dish.
American BreadCentral Americans inmainly tortillas, corn cakes, are used both as a separate dish (when various fillings are wrapped in them) and as a substitute for regular bread. In South America, colonial habits and Indian traditions have mixed: big cities are crazy about European-style bread, while in the villages they prefer coarser bread. Thus, in Chile, traditional bread is called milkao, it is prepared on the basis of potatoes. Bolivian markets are also abundant in all kinds of bread: marraquetas, sarnitas, empenadas, bollos and many, many others... In Canada and the USA, European wheat varieties of bread are popular, and Italian and Jewish breads are also in demand. But especially the inhabitants of the northern states are delighted with soft bread with milk or butter.
Steamed Buns
Bread with figs and aniseV nowadays different varietiesbread can be found everywhere: “French” baguettes - in China, focaccia - in Argentina, and black German bread - in supermarkets in Russia, next to the tortilla. Now, without leaving your area, you can make a sort of "bread" journey to the nearest bakery. And enjoy the great taste of this incomparable product!
