Breads of the World

What this quiz asks

• Which flatbread puffs up in a very hot oven to form a pocket that can be split and filled?
• Mexico's tortillas were originally made from which grain?
• The bread shown is boiled briefly before it is baked. What is it called?
• What does the name of the Italian bread ciabatta mean?
• Is sourdough bread raised by wild yeasts and bacteria rather than by packaged baker's yeast?
• Brioche owes its rich, soft, golden crumb to generous amounts of which two ingredients?
• Traditional soda bread is raised with bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk instead of yeast.
• Select ALL of these breads that are flatbreads.
• Pumpernickel, a dark and dense rye bread, comes from which country?
• Challah, a braided loaf enriched with eggs, is traditionally eaten on which occasion in Jewish homes?
• Pão de queijo, Brazil's little cheese breads, get their chewy texture from which starch?
• Rugbrød, the dense Danish loaf used for open sandwiches, is made mainly from which grain?
• Stollen, a fruit loaf dusted with icing sugar, is a Christmas speciality of which German city?
• In France, a baguette sold as 'de tradition française' may be baked from dough that was frozen.
• Which Indian bread is deep-fried so that it puffs up into a hollow golden ball?
• Injera, the spongy, sour flatbread of Ethiopia and Eritrea, is traditionally made mainly from which grain?
• Order these moments in bread history from oldest to newest.
• Kvass, a mildly fizzy drink popular in Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic states, is traditionally fermented from what?
• Select ALL of these breads that are traditionally made without any yeast or other raising agent.
• Charred bread crumbs reported from a site in Jordan in 2018 were then the oldest known. About how old were they, in years?