Perhaps some have heard of the bread that the monk prepared during the famine in the desert, thus saving his people from certain death. Those of you with an interest in science and history should not ignore the fact that the legend is highly believable and therefore even more surprising.
So what was the name of that legendary bread, from which it was made? It is quite possible to answer these questions, one has only to ponder over the legend, for a while discarding religious prejudices. Unfortunately, the exact name of the monk who cooked this amazing dish remains unknown, history is silent about him, everything else can be figured out.
The name of the bread, which, according to legend, was made by a monk
One ancient legend says that the so-called "manna from heaven" descended to the monk, from which he made bread. This bread is called very simply - "pretzel". In one of the finals of the game "Field of Miracles" a question was asked related to this bread, the word had to consist of eight letters. The pretzel is only now considered an addition to tea and a treat for baking lovers, which is available every day, before it was a kind of bread. Today, a pretzel can be bought in any store, but in ancient times it was a real gift from above.
The legend itself simply boggles the imagination of readers. It tells how people, exhausted from hunger and painful passage through the desert, saw in front of them a huge number of small grains, outwardly resembling semolina. They were fed up with these grains, this allowed them to survive and complete their incredibly difficult path. One of the monks allegedly even managed to make bread from heavenly grains.
It turns out that a divine gift can be found quite reasonable, earthly explanation. Some scientists suggest that the grains of divine manna are lumps of edible lichen that are carried by the wind across the African and Asian deserts. Of course, the biblical story boggles the imagination, strengthens the views of believers, but it has a completely scientific foundation, which means it can be a historical fact.
The legendary bread is a pretzel. Modern cooking recipes
For pretzels with nuts, you will need:
- 350 g flour;
- 200 g of butter;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 80 g vanilla sugar;
- a quarter teaspoon of salt;
- 3 eggs;
- 100 g of chopped nuts
Perhaps one of the most successful modern pretzel recipes is Pretzels with Nuts. To prepare them, sift the flour thoroughly beforehand and mix it with granulated sugar, not forgetting to add about 30 grams of vanilla sugar. Then add eggs and slightly softened butter, mix thoroughly until a homogeneous dough is obtained. It must be placed in the refrigerator and kept there for an hour.
Divide the chilled dough into pieces and form pretzels from them, you should get about fifteen to twenty pieces. Put the future delicacy on a baking sheet, not forgetting to grease it with oil first. Now it's all about the nuts, sprinkle the pretzels generously with them. You need to bake all this for about 15 minutes at a temperature of about two hundred degrees. The resulting pretzels should be cooled and sprinkled with the rest of the vanilla sugar.
For pretzels in Hebrew you will need:
- 0.5 cups of yeast;
- 1.7 kg of flour;
- salt and anise to taste
- warm water
Another very interesting, slightly unusual recipe for making pretzels is “Jewish pretzels”. You need to mix yeast, flour, salt and anise with warm water, knead a rather thick dough. Don't forget to give it time for it to rise properly. It is especially interesting that such pretzels are pre-cooked a little before being sent to the oven. To do this, the formed pretzels are dipped in boiling water, wait until they float, caught and sent to the oven. The only thing left to do is to wait until the pretzels are ready.
