ABSTRACT
Baking has been many cultures’ favorite technique for the production of snacks, desserts, and side dishes to meals for many years. Nowadays, baking is well known as the method for producing sweets and all sorts of wondrous appetizing pastries. In the old days, the rst incident of baking occurred when humans took wild grass grains, soaked them in water, and mixed everything together, turning it into a kind of broth-like paste. The paste was then cooked by pouring it onto a ›at, hot rock, resulting in a bread-like substance. Later, this paste was roasted on hot embers, which facilitated considerably the bread-making process. According to existing records, the Egyptians already had bread since 2500 BC and most probably learned the process from the Babylonians. The Greek Aristophanes, around 400 BC, recorded information that tortes with patterns and honey ›ans existed in Greek cuisine. Dispyrus, a Greek sweet prepared by the Greeks around that time, resembling a donut made from ›our and honey, shaped like a ring and soaked in wine, was eaten when hot (Tanis).
