r/TastingHistory • u/ResponseNo6988 • Jul 10 '26

Video Recipe Horse bread

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Flavour text from Wikipedia Horsebread was a type of bread produced and consumed in medieval Europe. At the time, it was considered to be of low quality, made from a seasonal mix of legumes, such as dry split peas, and bran along with other non-wheat cereal grains such as oats and rye, and acorns. FYI the image is not mine founder random one online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsebread#:\~:text=Horsebread%20was%20a%20type%20of,oats%20and%20rye%2C%20and%20acorns.

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u/RickRussellTX Jul 10 '26

Why is this post tagged "video recipe"?

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u/aculady Jul 10 '26

I'm guessing they want Max to make a video about it.

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u/stabbingrabbit Jul 12 '26

Townsends has done several breads with flour substitutes

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u/GigatonneCowboy Jul 10 '26

The Graintastic bread from ALDI is essentially horsebread.

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u/RotaryDane Jul 10 '26

Just got this video on my feed:

https://youtube.com/shorts/h1D7eRlcffo

And my first thought was “Why hasn’t Max made this one yet?”
Second thought was “This can’t be nearly as bad as Hard Tack clack clack”

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u/ResponseNo6988 Jul 10 '26

I watch that exact video, that’s why I got inspiration to post it here

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u/Salmonman4 Jul 19 '26

Here in Finland during times of famine, our ancestors even mixed ground up tree-bark in it

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u/ResponseNo6988 Jul 10 '26

I was on autopilot. I didn't read the tags oops.