BREAD 2000 YEARS OLD

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1932, Page 8

BREAD 2000 YEARS OLD

OLD ROMAN BAKING METHODS. " Modern ‘English loaves cut a poor figure at the Roman International Bakery Inhibition,'' “which " Signor Mussolini opened in the excavated shops of Hadrikn’s Forum.: They wCre shown covered with mildew; but an ancient Roman loaf, said to be 2000 years old, was hard' as a fossil, with eight lines deviating from the centre like an oldfashioned scone.

Miany interesting exhibits are shown in a collection to which a hundred state's have contributed. But it must be confessed that th e best items came from ’Pompeii, Naples Sluseum, and. some old Roman collections. The picture df', Terence Procido and his wife, who baked bread in Pompeii shortly before Vesuvius’ ashes buried them, •hows a good-looking young man, very like the Neapolitans of „to-day, and His dark-haired wife, whose eyebrows seem to have been shaved.

Another picture, said to be older and dug up in Rome some years ago, shows five bakers’ apprentices, standing before a long trough, shaping the dough into rolls. A horse, walking round and found a barrel, works the dough by moving a stout stick set in the middle of the barrel.