Daughter's school project...need a recipe for something that people ate in Jesus' time. Help!?

Answer 1

They ate frequently imparticular barley loaves these were a flat bread made by:

Barley is a grain thats sweet on its own.

Barley loaf recipe: - Makes 4 loaves.
2 pkg. yeast, dissolved in 1/2 cup warm water
Dissolve the yeast in warm water and let it sit for 10 minutes.


Next with the 8 cups of wheat flour/ 4 cup barley flour/ 2 cup soy bean flour/ 1 cup lentils, cooked and mashed/ 1/2 cup millet flour/ 1/4 cup rye flour/ one & a 1/2 cup warm water/ 1 tbsp. salt/ 5 tbsp. olive oil/ 1 tbsp. honey/

Mix the other dry ingredients in separate bowl. Blend lentils,
oil and small amount of water; place in large mixing bowl with
remaining water. Stir in 2 cups of mixed flour. Add yeast mixture.
Stir in remaining salt and flour. Knead on floured surface, then
place in oiled bowl. Let rise until double in bulk. Knead again;
shape and place in greased loaf pans. Let rise. Bake at 375
degrees approximately 1 hour.

And the wine they mention was was not alcohol but regular grape juice unfermented either/or. You can dilute this with water to serve for an even more meager meal. Their meals were meager.

There was no such thing as potatoes in that area of the world of any sort near Jerusalem. They had turnips in this area for turnips were all over the ancient world. you can grill some turnips and serve with butter. Yes many had goats butter but using the cows butter would be alright also since they may have had oxen that the females produced milk occasionally and the goat and cow are both bovine so cows butter will be fine.

The other item of course be fish & Tilapia would have been the species served popularly at Biblical times.

They added spices such as cloves to fish and figs were abundant so they were served alongside meats since figs are meaty and compliment a meal.

Peas mush was the other ancient food served alongside seafood.

some grapes would be a usual for dessert to cleanse the teeth.

Answer 2

Food, had all sorts of religious and philosophical meaning. To begin with, they never ate meat unless it had been sacrificed to a god, or had been hunted in the wild. They believed that it was wrong to kill and eat a tame, domesticated animal without sacrificing it to the gods. Even with vegetables, many believed that particular foods were cleaner or dirtier, or that certain gods liked certain foods better than others. The Pythagoreans, for example, would not eat beans. But even if you were not a Pythagorean, the Greeks tended to think of the god Dionysos whenever they drank wine (which was often), and to think of Demeter and Persephone whenever they ate bread.

The Greeks ate mainly the Mediterranean triad, wheat (or barley or millet), wine, and olive oil. They also grew vegetables, especially legumes (lentils, beans, peas, chickpeas). Possibly they ate more fish than most other Mediterranean people. Also, because of their feelings about sacrificing meat, they may have eaten meat less than other people did.

So, I suggest a menu of:
A pot of lentils cooked up with a little onion and a meat bone.
Or a bowl of pinto beans (canned are great) With Sauted onion, garlic, and canned tomatoes. When nearly finished add chopped cilantro.
Fish if you can afford it.
And you can buy tortillas and pass them out as unlevened bread, or pita bread.
For drinks serve grape juice.
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Better yet: Pinto Beans
1 lb. Dried Pinto Beans 1/2 Onion
2 Cloves Garlic 1/2 Tomato
3 Slices of Bacon, Chopped 1 Serrano Pepper (opt.)
Cull And rinse dried beans. Place in a pot, and cover
beans with an inch of water. Add Garlic. Bring to a boil
then fast simmer till tender. (2-3 hr.)
In a frying pan cook bacon pieces til almost done.
Add onion and sauté till translucent, add tomato and
cilantro and sauté till cilantro wilts.
Add the bacon mixture to the beans, mix well, and
simmer for 30 minutes.

(If time or laziness is of essence then use Luck’s canned pinto beans. You can’t tell the difference!)
Saute the onion, garlic in a little olive oil till translucent. Add canned tomatoes after you squeeze out the seeds and chop. Add the canned beans and 1/2 can of water. Let simmer for 30 minutes. 5 minutes before serving add chopped cilantro.

Answer 3

Remember the 7 fishes and 7 loaves of bread story

Gently poached fish with a little salt and fresh bread and you have a meal of the time and a parable to boot.

From a fisherman who will release the first fish of the day for luck and then cook the next caught for breakfast shortly after sunup with a bread roll or bun

Yum

Answer 4

Dried figs and/or dates boiled in milk. It was a pretty common dish around the time of jesus.

Get some squashed dried figs ( try an indian/middle eastern store)

Dates are pretty common

cut them into small pieces and boil them in milk with constant stirring otherwise the milk will stick to the bottom and burn. simmer for a while with regular stirring till the milk protein on the top turns slightly reddish.( add sugar to taste)

Stuffed flattened bread ( sheep or beef keema)

Problem is I don't know what spices and herbs they used to put in with the meat.( There was no chilli back then , and i don't think black pepper had come there yet from the east)(flavor meat according to your taste)

Make dough from flour, Flatten it into a small size pizza

Put oil on it and add meat(already cooked) to it. Flatten it again
with meat inside

cook over open flame

Answer 5

I remember doing a similar project. An easy thing to make is dried dates or figs dipped in honey. It's a little messy, but simple.

Answer 6

That is so funny. My son had this project last year. Check out the links below, they might be a big help!
Goodluck.

http://essenes.net/jeat.html

This is the final project my son gave in. He passed.

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2003/20031015.htm

Answer 7

A basic loaf of bread, recipe on yeast package.

Answer 8

Hi Angie,
How about unleavened bread......or The Passover Bread
http://breadnet.net/unleavened.html
Regards.........
CoffeeBean

Answer 9

Basically bread and fish, meat was a luxury that most people could not afford.

Answer 10

when i was in afghanistan we would get this bread called NAN, i was told that was the same bread they had eaten for ever over there, i would really like to get that recipe,