06-01-2005, 04:47 PM
We have been puzzling this out too. A Pompeiian loaf is typically round with eight sections cut into it. It seems that the bakers used round pans a lot and occasionally just on the floor of the oven. These shapes you can easily see and reproduce. You can find baking pans in Pompeii but not what you describe that would flip them, though that would probably work.
But how to get a sharp lettered imprint in? If before it rises, then it will soften out. If at the end of the rising, you'd just punch it down. And if you let it sit in while it's rising, it would push it down, maybe not rise as much as needed.
Probably thing to do is experiment.
But how to get a sharp lettered imprint in? If before it rises, then it will soften out. If at the end of the rising, you'd just punch it down. And if you let it sit in while it's rising, it would push it down, maybe not rise as much as needed.
Probably thing to do is experiment.
Richard Campbell
Legio XX - Alexandria, Virginia
RAT member #6?
Legio XX - Alexandria, Virginia
RAT member #6?
