Show ancient industry Is that of bread baking bading baking Is probably the very oldest industry man engaged in wheat and barley the oldest cereals known to hae been found together with the plowshare fashioned of wood and the stone hand mill consisting of a bol hollowed stone and a stone ball shaped crusher among the remains left by prehistoric man the oldest bread was made in the form of cakes or fritters simply prepared by mixing wheat or barley to a batter with water and milk and baking baiting these batter cakes of maybe the size and form of our present day griddle cakes tin hot aslies ashes or over red hot bot coals or a liot hot stone which represented the first bread pan and oven combined salt was probably the only other ingredient used besides the milk and water as there was no baking powder and yeast was not cot used until brewing beer from germinated barley had become known the egyptians had perfected both bobb baking and brewing 1500 years before the b beginning e ginning of the christian era |