The bread of our ancestors

While asking for the support of all residents of Cluj with a Facebook profile to vote for our community project entitled "The bread of our ancestors" ("Painea strabunilor" in Romanian) - VOTE HERE - we continued with the research. The project envisages free workshops for kindergarten groups, teaching them how to make fire, make the dough, model bread and bake it in the fashion of the Romans and the Dacians. This envisages the reconstruction of the clay oven at Camp Virtus - a topic tackled before HERE.

We are also doing out homework regarding ancient bread shapes, stamps and bakeries. The best sources are charred and construction remains in Pompeii and Herculaneum, but there are also useful depictions and preserved recipes.

charred bread from Pompeii. source: kitchenboy

bronze bread stamp. source: source: kitchenboy

A view of the millstones and oven of a bakery (Pistrinium) in the Roman town of Pompeii. source: ancient.eu

Drawing of the Average Work Day in an Ancient Roman Bakery. Photograph. Pompeii Nowadays and 2000 Years Ago. Firenze: Bonechi Edizioni- Il Turismo, 1977. 56-57. Print. This shows how a Romran bakery could have looked. Source: pinterest