Ancient Egyptian Spiral Bread of the Pharaoh

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"You should grind flour at least once in your life." - A man literally last named Miller

Akhenaten placating his irate employees with a banquet sounds a lot like modern bosses throwing pizza parties to quell complaints. 😅

“If you can’t source your yeast directly from the tomb of an ancient pharaoh, store bought is fine.”

It is a recipe. A cow above the pot means deep fried in tallow, an ibis above the pot means boiled.

Ancient Egyptians spilling the tea: "I heard Nebatah's wife has been grinding grain at Tuya's house lately."

“Bread was everything”. As an Egyptian I can tell you. Bread IS everything

I laughed so hard at the segment about the ancient Egyptian guy complaining about his mother-in-law. I always love these glimpses into everyday life of ancient peoples because you get to see how we've fundamentally always been the same.

The spiral bread was almost certainly fried. What's you're seeing is two processes, with the tandoor-like oven used for the chapchak-like breads, and then the spirals being fried. Archeological texts describe some depictions of dough being poured as if it's more like a batter, which lends itself to the likelihood that this particular scene from Ramses tomb is depicting some kind of fried dough/cake. The depicted vessel also looks more similar to discovered or otherwise depicted containers used for oils than what was typically used to carry water. The conical items are also not moulds but lids for baking the bread. The cones were heated in fire and then set over the pot to make a dutch-oven, but the shape would concentrate and reflux moisture.

I showed my son the lessons about how he should treat his mother, he answered “you don’t give me beer” 😂

4:50 leave it to a Miller to advocate milling you own flour, making your grandparents proud!!😂

When I was in Egypt in 1980 I would go to get fresh bread. It was baked after sunset when the temperature was cooler in wood -fired ovens. Bakers made it and crowds came to buy it. It was slightly smoky. Delicious. And the firelight made the scene dramatic.

I am no egyptologist by any means, but I remember reading somewhere a while ago that archaeologists are not sure on how to translate all of the different words for bread, cake and such. In other words, they're not sure if the word they have translated as cake is actually what we would think of as cake today. As a former archaeologist, I absolutely love these episodes, which are a lot like experimental archaeology. What a delightful episode!

Ramses III at dinner: "Guys, this spiral bread....it's so awesome, like awesome enough I'd want it carved into the walls of my tomb. Seriously, best thing I've ever had."

So whenever I get little debbie's pecan wheels from Walmart, I can just say Im fetching the pharaohs royal spiral bread

As soon as you said "boiled before being baked" I had flashbacks to my weekend job in a bakery. One of my jobs was to boil the bagels, before they went into the ovens!

Great video Max 🙏 I am Egyptian we still make this kind of buns , it is actually a bun ..and call it 'Shoreik' شريك now they use high quality wheat flour , and top it with cane sugar grains ..My Mum used to bake it when we were young , I have a recipe for it but the modern version , it takes a lot of kneading ...BTW , till now Egypt has more than 80 kinds of local breads and pastries , lots of them are still made in the ancient ways using sun rays , or other methods of baking and ovens , bread everything here still that it is called عيش which means 'life' itself !

I can just see this episode. giving the Great British Baking Show the newest idea: ancient Egypt week. "Make this recipe based off these five obscure pictures! Oh, and they're not in order. Good luck!" 😂

'the "recipe" i'm going to be using today comes from the valley of the kings on the walls of the tomb of pharoah ramses the third' what a cool sentence

Sir,as I am egyptian (coptic) myself i do really appreciate your videos