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Panis quadratus

Ancient bread of Pompeii with a characteristic eight-section pattern on the top of the bread that was made in the dough using four cuts prior to baking

Panis quadratus
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Baking Bread with the Romans: Part II – Panis Quadratus

Taste the daily life of Romans with this recipe for Panis Quadratus: The infamous sectioned bread excavated at Pompeii and preserved for millenia after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD...
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Panis Quadratus: Ancient Bread of Pompeii – Breadtopia

A delicious whole wheat, seeded, pull-apart sourdough bread from about 2000 years ago whose characteristics have been reconstructed by food historians and archaeologists using ancient texts, depictions in art, and the analysis of intact bread loaves preserved...
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Roman bread & Panis Quadratus - Historical Cooking Classes

Article about Roman bread. With Roman bread recipe for Panis Quadratus. Roman bakers, Roman bakeries, Bread from antiquity...
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Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate - Gastro Obscura

Today the bread is crisped black as charcoal, and run through with cracks. A baker had kneaded and shaped the squat, round loaf, known as a panis quadratus,.....

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