Unleavened bread
flat bread) | |
Variations | Matzo, roti, tortilla, and many others |
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Unleavened bread is any of a wide variety of
flat breads; however, not all flat breads are unleavened. Unleavened breads, such as the tortilla and roti, are staple foods in Central America and South Asia, respectively. Unleavened sacramental bread plays a major part in Christian liturgy and Eucharistic theology
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Religious significance
Unleavened breads have symbolic importance in Judaism and Christianity. Jews and Christians consume unleavened breads such as matzo during Passover and Eucharist, respectively, as commanded in Exodus 12:18. Per the Torah Old Testament, they were instructed, "Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land."
Host, and unleavened wafers for the communion of the faithful. Some Protestant churches tend to follow the Latin Catholic practice, whereas others use either unleavened bread or wafers or ordinary (leavened) bread, depending on the traditions of their particular denomination or local usage.[citation needed
]
On the other hand, most
Western churches.[1]
Varieties of unleavened bread
- Arboud – Unleavened bread made of wheat flour baked in the embers of a campfire, traditional among Arab Bedouin.
- Arepa made of corn and corn flour, original from Colombia and Venezuela.
- Bannock – Unleavened bread originating in Ireland and the British Isles.
- Bataw – Unleavened bread made of barley, corn, or wheat, traditional in Egypt.
- Crepe – a Frenchunleavened pancake eaten both for breakfast and dessert
- Damper – traditional Australian colonial bread, originally unleavened
- corn chips – technically a type of unleavened bread, though not commonly thought of as such, Fritos are a popular snack in the United States.
- Kitcha – Ethiopian type of flat bread used mainly in the traditional fit-fit or chechebsa dish.
- Lavash (usually leavened but occasionally unleavened) – Armenian flat bread inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists
- Lefse – a Norwegian flatbread incorporating potato as a major ingredient
- Matzo – Jewish flat bread used in religious ceremony
- has always been much thinner.
- Pizza dolce di Beridde – Unleavened sweet bread typical for the city of Rome.
- Rieska – Unleavened bread usually made of barley, traditional in the northern parts of Finland
- Roti – Indian flat breads including Chapati, Dalpuri, and variants.
- Tortilla – Mesoamerican/Mexican flat bread
- Tortilla de rescoldo – Chilean unleavened bread made of wheat flour, traditionally baked in the coals of a campfire.
- Christian Eucharistis often an unleavened one, frequently in the form of a small crisp wafer
See also
References
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