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To Make Pea Bread

A flatbread made from pea flour, oatmeal, salt, and warm water, baked over embers or in a pot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Make Pea Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dough

  1. Combine pea flour, oatmeal, and salt in a bowl.

  2. Knead in warm water to form a stiff paste.

  3. Roll out the paste into thin cakes.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake the cakes over embers.

  2. Shape into flattish rolls and bake in an iron pot over a wood fire.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Pea flour
Forms the main body of the bread and sets into structure once hydrated.
Oatmeal
Adds bulk and a coarser, more rustic texture to the paste.
Warm water
Hydrates the flours so they bind into a stiff, workable paste.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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