Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Qualité et esthétique du pain rural libanais

1995; Volume: 37; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/jatba.1995.3570

2437-2226

Aïda Kanafani‐Zahar,

Khobz is a large bread from rural Lebanon that is 50-65 cm in diameter and 0.5-2mm thick. Special flours are used to obtain such a large bread, which is made by women for household consumption. In addition to its size, Khobz must also have a pleasing color, smell, and taste, while melting in the mouth without losing its texture or pliancy. Good Khobz is made from an extendible, non-elastic dough that does not rip or retract when stretched. Laboratory analyses confirm the practices used by the women to make Khobz, whose esthetic qualities are largely derived from the sacred values attached to bread.