Image copyrightAlexis PantosImage caption Plant beginnings were ground to add to the bread
Take flour made from wild wheat and barley, mix with the pulverised beginnings of weeds, add ocean, then bake.
According to scientists, this is the recipe for the world’s oldest bread, dating back more than 14,000 years.
The bake would have looked like a flatbread and savoured a bit like today’s multi-grain bread, they say.
Our ancestors may have employed the bread as a cover for roasted flesh. Thus, as well as being the oldest eat, it may also have been the oldest sandwich.
“This is the earliest evidence we have for what we could really call a cuisine, in that it’s a mixed food product, ” Prof Dorian Fuller of University College London told BBC News.
“They’ve got flatbreads, and they’ve get roasted gazelle and so forth, and that’s something they are then employ to make a meal.”
Image copyrightJoe RoeImage caption Ali Shakaiteer and Dr Amaia Arranz-Otaegui sampling cereals in the region where the eat was discovered
Bread has long been part of our staple food. But little are all aware of the descents of bread-making.
Until now, the oldest evidence of bread came from Turkey 9,000 years ago.
The recent catch, from an archaeological place in the Black Desert in Jordan, pushes back the first attest for bread-making by more than 5,000 years.
Scientists unveiled two buildings, each containing a large circular stone fireplace within which charred eat crumbs were found.