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    The English Bread Book is an English cookery book by Eliza Acton, first published in 1857. The work consists of a history of bread making in England, improvements...
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    until 1918, when Longman, the book's publisher, took the decision not to reprint. In 1857 Acton published The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, a more...
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    The Conquest of Bread (French: La Conquête du Pain; Russian: Хлѣбъ и воля, romanized: Khleb i volja, 'Bread and Freedom'; Хлеб и воля in contemporary...
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  • "Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed...
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    great interest at the Royal Society of Arts in London. Eliza Acton discussed his new discoveries in detail in The English Bread-Book For Domestic Use (1857)...
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    and ease of production. The Old English word for bread was hlaf (hlaifs in Gothic: modern English loaf), which appears to be the oldest Teutonic name. Old...
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    Modern Cookery for Private Families and her The English BreadBook, Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper, Marie-Antoine Carême's Le Pâtissier...
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    Rye bread is a type of bread made with various proportions of flour from rye grain. It can be light or dark in color, depending on the type of flour used...
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    In the United States, a biscuit is a variety of baked bread with a firm, dry exterior and a soft, crumbly interior. In Canada it sometimes also refers...
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    Pita (redirect from Pita bread)
    styles of Arab khubz (bread). The first mention of the word in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1936. The English word is borrowed from...
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    by YouGov in 2017 found the following to be on more than 50% of 'ideal' Full English breakfasts: bacon, sausage, beans, bread (either toast or fried)...
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    Naan (redirect from Nan Bread)
    breads Pakistani breads List of Pakistani breads List of Indian breads Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads By Bernard Clayton Jr., Donnie A Cameron...
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    Old English, particularly northern ones. Englischmen þeyz hy hadde fram þe bygynnyng þre manner speche, Souþeron, Northeron, and Myddel speche in þe myddel...
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    from the city of Białystok in Poland, is a traditional bread roll in Polish Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. A chewy yeast roll bearing similarity to the bagel...
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    Lardy cake (redirect from Lardy bread)
    cheap, and when the English taste for sweet things—particularly in the Midlands and the North—became more pronounced, that such rich breads or cakes were...
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    Kulich was an Easter bread made in Russia and panettone was made in Italy. The earliest citation for "raisin bread" in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated...
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  • Scone (redirect from Scone (bread))
    derive from the Middle Dutch schoonbrood (fine white bread), from schoon (pure, clean) and brood (bread), or it may also derive from the Scots Gaelic...
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    Crumpet (redirect from English crumpet)
    (/ˈkrʌmpɪt/ ) is a small griddle bread made from an unsweetened batter of water or milk, flour, and yeast, popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada...
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  • English Bread and Yeast Cookery is an English cookery book by Elizabeth David, first published in 1977. The work consists of a history of bread-making...
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    Anglicanism. The first prayer book, published in 1549 in the reign of King Edward VI of England, was a product of the English Reformation following the break...
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    Food portal List of bread dishes List of sauces "Definition of bread sauce in English". Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on December 28...
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  • The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...
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    Paul Hollywood (category English television chefs)
    Breads as the "Top Bread and Pastry Book" for that year. In 2008, Hollywood created an almond and roquefort sourdough recipe that was said to be the most...
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    Khubz (redirect from Syrian bread)
    khubooz,[clarification needed] is the usual word for "bread" in Standard Arabic and in many of the vernaculars. Among the breads popular in Middle Eastern countries...
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    Sourdough (redirect from Sourdough bread)
    Sourdough or sourdough bread is a bread made by the fermentation of dough using wild lactobacillaceae and yeast. Lactic acid from fermentation imparts...
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    Bread and butter pudding is a traditional bread pudding in British cuisine. Slices of buttered bread scattered with raisins are layered in an oven dish...
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    Cardamom breads, including the Finnish pulla (or nisu) and Swedish kardemummabröd and kardemummabullar, are a group of enriched breads or pastry flavored...
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    Challah (redirect from Challah bread)
    halachah, a bread with too much sugar changes the status of the bread to cake. This would change the blessing used over the bread from Hamotzi (bread) to Mezonot...
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    French toast (redirect from Eggy bread)
    dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan-fried. Alternative names and variants include eggy bread, Bombay toast, gypsy...
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    Hardtack (redirect from Sea bread)
    the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1830. It is known by other names including brewis (possibly a cognate with "brose"), cabin bread, pilot bread,...
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