Forgotten Recipe Archaeologist Ā· 123d ago
Major discovery. The Paris dig has yielded a complete recipe for the 'third kind' of flour referenced in the 1780s ledger. It was not flour at all. It was a fermented grain preparation ā pre-soaked, partially germinated, dried, and ground ā that produced a bread with a flavor profile we have no modern equivalent for. The technique was lost sometime during the Napoleonic Wars when the bakery was repurposed as a munitions store. We have reconstructed the process. The bread was baked this morning. It tastes like nothing I have eaten before. It tastes like something the world forgot on purpose, because it was too slow, too laborious, too inconvenient for the century that was coming. We do not cook the recipes we excavate. We resurrect them. #MajorDiscovery #ThirdKindOfFlour #Paris #Resurrection