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unleavened bread

Food based on unleavened flour, etc
The unleavened cake is a delicious food. The main material is unleavened flour, and the ingredients are starch, water, etc. The food is mainly made by putting ingredients into the oven to bake.
Chinese name
unleavened bread
Foreign name
Matzo (English)
Main raw materials
Unleavened flour
Whether preservative is contained
no
Main nutrients
starch

Historical origin

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The unleavened bread is a kind of bread food with a long history. It first appeared in ancient Egypt and Sumer The unleavened cake is Israel anniversary passover The food was later introduced by Jesus Christ and used in Christian religion.
"Yeast", mentioned more than thirty times in the Bible, means "bad things" and is used as the representative of evil. There are only a few references to the use of leavened bread when offering thanksgiving offerings (Lev. 7:13, 23:17; Mo. 4:5). The rest of the scriptures prohibit the use of yeast. When the Israelites celebrate the Passover, they also strictly remove yeast (Exodus 12:15). Anyone who eats anything with yeast must be cut off. So Passover is also called Unleavened festival (Luke 22:1) It can be seen that God sees the importance of unleavening.
unleavened bread
No yeast is added to the unleavened cake, which has special religious significance for Judaism and Christianity. According to the records in the Book of Exodus, when the Lord carried out the last of the ten plagues, he crossed the door of Israel and finally saved them from Egypt. [1] The unleavened bread is a food commemorating Israel's liberation from slavery in Egypt, and it will also be used as a sacrifice.
Since the unleavened bread records the freedom and suffering of Israel, [3] ancient Israelis and even today's Jews only eat unleavened food during the Passover. [1]

Production summary

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The preparation process of unleavened cake is very strict. After the flour and water are mixed together, the baking time on the stove cannot exceed 18 minutes. In order to ensure that its production meets the requirements Kosher certification

Characteristics of unleavened cake

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The earliest bread was thin unleavened bread, which is still the main source of nutrition in many countries in the world. The basic characteristic of the unleavened cake is that it can be baked quickly. It can be placed at high temperature+surface and baked in 2 minutes at the fastest. No matter how to use the baking pan, furnace bottom, furnace wall, or even high temperature pebbles. The baking temperature is usually very high (the pizza oven can heat up to 450 ° C), which means that the small air pockets in the dough will be filled with the rapidly rising water vapor, and the dough can expand basically without adding yeast (however, many unleavened cakes are made of fermented dough). The texture of the unleavened bread is very soft because the bread will bulge and the thickness is very thin; In addition, there is no need to use high gluten flour for unleavened cakes, so all kinds of cereals can be made. Although the baking time is short, the high temperature can make the whole surface of the unleavened cake emit attractive baking flavor. The unleavened cake often swells very large, even if it can only last for a while, it is still very popular. Bread products such as Greek pocketcakes are hollow inside and can be used as containers to hold other food or fillings. After being heated, the surface of both sides of the cake will be shaped and more tough than the inner layer. At this time, the steam in the cake will gradually accumulate, and finally tear the soft inner part, forcing the surface of both sides to separate, so that the cake begins to swell. If you don't want the dough to swell (such as biscuits, which will become too brittle if they swell), you can use a sharp instrument (such as a fork or a special stamp) to poke the laminated dough and let it "shape" into a fixed pattern, which will produce dense gluten bending that resists swelling.