Cooking Food
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Cooking equipment in bible times was fairly simple.
Cooking equipment in bible times was fairly simple.
Stews
Most foods were boiled or stewed in a big pot and seasoned with salt, onions, garlic, cumin, or other herbs and spices.
Roasting
Red meat, like lamb or beef, may have been cooked like this but only ever served on special occasions.
The meat would have been put on a spit and turned over an open fire. For most people such rich food was a rare luxury.
Ovens
This type of oven was made from mud bricks plastered in mud. A fire was lit inside making the outside very hot and perfect for cooking.
Flat breads were laid out on the outside and cooked like a BBQ plate.
Stoves
Most homes would have had simple stoves. These were like ovens (made of bricks)with a fire inside that would heat up the bricks, but smaller than ovens.
Heath Cooking
Just like a campfire, heaths would have a few rocks on which to balance your pots and space to light your fire. This type of cooking was open so you could see the flames.
Baking Bread
The basic ingredient for bread is wheat or barley. People would grind their grain for the day and then sieve out the dirt and husks. The flour would be all that remained and this would be mixed with water and olive oil (maybe sweetened with some honey).
The dough this made would be shaped into flat round loaves and left in the sun to rise. When ready they cooked on the hot oven.
Yoghurt and Cheese
Goats milk was the most common milk used in bible times. If you left milk in an open jar, bacteria in the air would make it go sour turning it into yoghurt.
If the yoghurt is left out longer it would separate into curds and whey. The wet whey would be drained off and the curds mixed with salt and presses hard together to create cheese.
Making Food Tasty
Food was sweetened with wild honey or syrups. These syrups would have come from the crushing and squeezing of grapes and dates. The honey would be collected from the wild bees living near villages and towns.
Lots of herbs and seasoning were also available to add different tastes to foods.
Fish
In old testament times only people close to the sea of lakes would have been able to catch and eat fish. By Jesus' time people had discovered that if you salted the fish it would stop it from going bad and would last a long time.
Because of this it could be carried far from the lakes and ocean and sold.
Stews
Most foods were boiled or stewed in a big pot and seasoned with salt, onions, garlic, cumin, or other herbs and spices.
Roasting
Red meat, like lamb or beef, may have been cooked like this but only ever served on special occasions.
The meat would have been put on a spit and turned over an open fire. For most people such rich food was a rare luxury.
Ovens
This type of oven was made from mud bricks plastered in mud. A fire was lit inside making the outside very hot and perfect for cooking.
Flat breads were laid out on the outside and cooked like a BBQ plate.
Stoves
Most homes would have had simple stoves. These were like ovens (made of bricks)with a fire inside that would heat up the bricks, but smaller than ovens.
Heath Cooking
Just like a campfire, heaths would have a few rocks on which to balance your pots and space to light your fire. This type of cooking was open so you could see the flames.
Baking Bread
The basic ingredient for bread is wheat or barley. People would grind their grain for the day and then sieve out the dirt and husks. The flour would be all that remained and this would be mixed with water and olive oil (maybe sweetened with some honey).
The dough this made would be shaped into flat round loaves and left in the sun to rise. When ready they cooked on the hot oven.
Yoghurt and Cheese
Goats milk was the most common milk used in bible times. If you left milk in an open jar, bacteria in the air would make it go sour turning it into yoghurt.
If the yoghurt is left out longer it would separate into curds and whey. The wet whey would be drained off and the curds mixed with salt and presses hard together to create cheese.
Making Food Tasty
Food was sweetened with wild honey or syrups. These syrups would have come from the crushing and squeezing of grapes and dates. The honey would be collected from the wild bees living near villages and towns.
Lots of herbs and seasoning were also available to add different tastes to foods.
Fish
In old testament times only people close to the sea of lakes would have been able to catch and eat fish. By Jesus' time people had discovered that if you salted the fish it would stop it from going bad and would last a long time.
Because of this it could be carried far from the lakes and ocean and sold.