Bread Making from Scratch Using ONLY Primitive Technology

working on a series about building things making the tools necessary to build them it's easy to focus on the transition from stone to bronze tools being one of the first major changes of significance this overlooks the much more revolutionary change that preceded it and made it possible in the first place the Neolithic Revolution the transition of humanity from hunting and gathering society to sedentary agricultural civilizations in human history 96% of it occurs in this pre agrarian Paleolithic era but in terms of human population 88% of all humans lived after it studying around 10,000 BCE several areas of the world independent of each other began to shift to agrarian lifestyle the use of farming fifty to hundred times as many people could live in the same area this increased source of energy allowed greater complexities in human society with denser populations this stimulated collective learning and innovation with more people exchanging ideas allowing more advanced in specialized professions such as metal smithing to emerge most areas of the world one of the key crops those domesticated was a grain which will quickly become a new foundation to the human diet initially grounded eaten as a gruel eventually evolved into bread it cheap staple food that would fill stomachs and build empires so now on our quest to rebuild civilization from scratch probably one of the most crucial building blocks will be some bread so I've been spending time growing many of the grains humanity has used wheat rye barley oats sorghum corn and buckwheat even an attempt at rice despite not having a long enough growing season to grow it outdoors in Minnesota so now I should have a good bank a variety of grains for upcoming projects now let's make some bread but first we'll need some special tools he's tickled to help harvest some of my grains a chisel and a mallet to help shape some stones specifically to make a corn stone should we use to grind the grains up then sebast gets to hold all 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the new player program to start your journey for some help picking a Bronze Age era sickle I got some help from Greg the sword casting guy who is in town this summer and we filmed a few upcoming casting segments with while he was here alright I'm back with Greg the sword caster and people would cast a few swords but next I have some grain that I want to harvest ah you help me out with making a sickle as a matter of fact I can so wheat is I is coming right out of the Bronze Age and the early bronze eight they would have been harvesting with something like this so this is a stone tool that they would have made and farmers during the early Bronze Age would have been using this because they didn't have bronze like during the early Bronze Age most of the military things so farmers were making tools like this and you can see where they get the idea because it looks a lot like an animal jaw bone and you can use that for cutting wheat like you're gonna do and these are found kind of all over the world this particular design is from Mesopotamia but they were using these like in the Pacific Islands they would use shark's teeth in the same way that's early Bronze Age by the later Bronze Age some farmers are they're lucky were able to have things like this this would have been attached to a handle would be about up to here like that they would have just put it on the top and then wrap semi some leather rounded a couple rivets to go through there to kind of secure it and the handle is only about that long so they'd hold it like that and you just go like chopping [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay did it mostly has kind of a funky little edge in there that's alright kind of cute and just like that we stole their technology this is great I just love that color that's oh that's not that doesn't happen every time I'm not sure what say I let that thank you too Greg you'll be seeing him in a few upcoming videos he helps with a casting of a few other items Greg is a sword casting teacher who travels a country teaching group classes if you wanted to come to you Jim a message at his website sword casting guy calm [Music] now with the sickle I can harvest some of my grain [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so being Andy collected some cattails during the summer and have let them dry since then that's good because it means when I leave a basket with them there won't be a lot of shrinkage and I won't get gaps for the flower to fall through but that's bad because the dry cattail doesn't want to bend when if I tried to weave with this I just get a bunch of snaps so I've soaked the cattail for about an hour in water which gives me a piece that will shrink when I weave with it but is also pliable enough that I can make a basket [Music] [Music] next casting a chisel and hammer my first attempt with a clay mold failed but was a bit more successful using sand [Music] [Music] mr. bell wait this is the leftover elmtree from what we cut down for the bow we're gonna repurpose some of it by making a handle for this hammerhead day Andy made me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Phil hey all right so I'm gonna turn this rock into a saddle cart to do that I just need to pull out a little disc in it along this way which will help collect the flour as we grind it [Music] well analyse prep the corn stone I started processing of some of the harvested meat by threshing it by beating it with a stick [Music] now to grind it to make some bread the first forms of bread which is baked flat breads made without any rising or leavening agent which Annalise is gonna make by using some of the ground flour and some honey I've harvested before I'm gonna eat what people ate before we had bread to kind of show why the logical next step in food was bread we have wheat berries I can crack that with my teeth but it takes some work so humans grounded up into flour mix it with water and maybe honey if they had access to it to make a kind of porridge it's kind of like oatmeal pretty bland it's really only getting flavor from the honey so I can see why something like this would be flattened and then baked in a flatbread he's kind of like thrown in there dick was one other side [Music] elevate a little place for the whole day [Music] yeah so just I don't like that [Music] the two breads that I kind of cooked more in the ashes that I already bit into and they were pretty good so I figured I'd test the two that I coached more on the rock but ended up finishing off in the fire anyways just cuz it was taking quite a while this one is the one sweetened with honey and this one is just water and wheat flour so let's start with this one and just so look at the inside of it I like unflavored pizza crust it's good it's bright and it's warm which is right now the most important factor to me I'd eat it like casually it's a good snack it definitely fill you up when your main concern with food was filling you up there's pretty good yeast was a later development whose origin isn't entirely known for sure but as wild yeast is present nearly everywhere is easy to imagine it getting accidentally discovered at some point the invention of love and bread and brewed beer shared the same ingredients and rough dates of origin it's hard to say with much certainty which came first and which led to the other but we'll be exploring some potential accidental beer making in the future with some of my other grains soon either way bread leavened with yeast began being made in Egypt by 4000 BCE it quickly became a standard in many parts of the world for my yeast I made a batch of watery flour left it out near our tomato plants Easter are attracted to sugary plants like tomatoes so should be a ripe area to collect some after a few hours of exposure I brought it inside to cultivate for the next few days somewhere warm and continue to feed it additional flour as we go all right so I got the freshly ground flour and the easte culture it's been cultivating get some water got some honey let's mix some Egyptian bread [Music] cymbals Thank You dad gluten [Music] [Music] I've mean the dough it's left to rise for an hour that needed again left to rise once more but to truly bake bread we're gonna need an oven using our Minnesota winter proof mobile lawn patent pending we built a stone foundation cover the interior shape of the oven and sand and then use a material called cob which is made from combining clay sand and straw in our case leftover straw from all the grains we harvested after drying and harden the sand is scooped out the oven is ready to be heated up by transferring in some coals [Music] I'm sterner oven [Music] once hot you left the bread to cook for a little over an hour okay Julie checking on its progress will we wait for the bread to bake let's dwell on some of the negative implications of this innovation we just made bread back fat well the surplus of food was great four billion civilizations and advancing technological development to the average individual themselves it was a different case archaeological evidence suggests that the switch to agriculture was generally a negative one to a person's life with evidence of declining living standards extra stress on bones from repetitive labor and people overall usually getting shorter some theories suggest agriculture became dominant by people falling into a trap of suddent ISM it's believed that it wasn't until a global climate change at around 10,000 BCE stable long-term agriculture became viable and once a tribe settled into farming their population will quickly grow too big to ever return to hunting and gathering and they'd be forced to farm more and more to feed everyone then as history progressed agricultural societies merely uh grew non agrarian societies and whenever conflict would arise they usually had superior numbers to push them out causing agriculture to quickly spread around the world anyways my bread should be done now [Music] [Music] Wow that's actually really good that is some good bread mouth noises mm-hmm turned out pretty nice so if you wanted to make this bread yourself how long would it take and how much would it cost the answer for that is it would take 71 and a half hours to raise your own crops make the tools to harvest them make your own grinding stone grind it capture your own yeast and then bake it into actual bread at minimum wage that's five hundred and seventy two dollars but for one loaf that's only 286 that's not a bad deal so overall very interesting process you really think about the grinding the grain which without a modern mill it is pretty hard to do making the stones pretty time-consuming I don't actually know myself because I didn't at least do that but it looked really hard to watch or do that just going through the process you can definitely tell how improvements to this were made along the way the berries of the wheat itself not very edible they're very hard to grind them up into a gruel it's okay I think you bake it into a small flatbread pretty good can totally see how you could just accidentally leave it out and capture some yeast and then that'll turn it into something that's a lot more alive and a lot more spongy overall a lot more pleasant to eat you can kind of tell it's kind of accidental evolution that happened along the way so we've made bread and breads basically the building block of civilization and then the thing that kind of just destroyed civilization the other byproduct of this who's the cause and solution to all life's problems it's not really knowing a beer came before bread or what point but pretty obvious to see how I can get that we have this little culture of yeast gonna let this guy stay a little bit longer and see if we get some beer just forget about it also follows some like 6,000 year old recipes as well made a few tools specific for this episode but our next episode we made a whole new batch of bronze tools revisit kind of how we did the melting of it with a little bit more efficient and more modern method that was use a little bit later into the Bronze Age keep moving along in the future no we have bread the building block for civilization thank you to all of our supporters on patreon without you this won't be possible so if you want to see more of our content consist supporting us and the amount really helps don't forget to ring the bell and give them thanks for watching if you enjoyed this video be sure to subscribe and check out other content we have covering a wide variety of topics also if you enjoy these series consider supporting us on patreon we are largely a fan funded channel and depend on the support of our viewers in order to keep our series going thanks for watching

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Length: 19min 25sec (1165 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 21 2019