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aaronatthedoublef.Yeast extracted from a 4500 year old piece of Egyptian pottery was still viable and apparently made delicious bread.
Wow amazing!
I don't think I'd want to eat bread made from such old yeast, especially yeast in pottery. I'd worry about lead and germs.
Apparently what they did was harvest yeast spores from the pottery, then used that to grow enough yeast to make bread, using ancient grains. They're also analyzing the yeast's DNA.
Thanks for posting the link to the article, Mike. I read it to my husband, who found it fascinating as well. It certainly had to be a different yeast from modern yeast, which can expire. I hope that there is a follow-up article at some point after they analyze the bread.
Need article. Wonder if they will use it to make Egyptian beer too.
And they should use some of the honey discovered and rehydrated at Pompeii!
