Passover And Bread
Posted: April 9th, 2009 | Author: miconian | Filed under: Miconian At Large | Tags: baking, exodus, judaism, maccaroons, matzoh, passover, torah | No Comments »
The whole idea of matzoh is that the Hebrews fleeing Egypt didn’t have time to let the bread rise, so it came out flat. See, they were baking in preparation for their exodus, which took them forty years.
Supposedly, they did eat along the way. Considering that they managed to bake bread while enslaved, it’s not a stretch to think that they figured out a way to do it again while wandering in the desert. Plus, if you’re fleeing your home, the last thing you’d want to do is start baking break from scratch. That’s still true today, and we have much better bread-baking equipment now.
Not that I have any problem with contradictions that are inevitably built into myths. But the convolutions of this one in particular are interesting to me, because:
- Bread can actually be prepared over the course of centuries, so Read the rest of this entry »
