I ate cornbread. This bread is a traditional Serbian bread, it appeared in Serbia in the Middle Ages during the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans. Then came great misery in the occupied countries. The people did not have the money for wheat bread to find an alternative in cornbread.
People in the Middle Ages did not have modern mills as we have today. They ground corn flour in the mill, and their flour was much larger than what we have today.
In the Middle Ages, when this kind of bread was made, it took a lot of effort to get something like that. First they sowed corn in the fields, then they waited for it to grow, when they harvested it they did not use any machines but they harvested corn by hand. Such a harvest lasted for several days. Then they waited for the freshly harvested corn to dry. When the corn dries, it is about 7 days after it was harvested. Such dry corn was ready for grinding in the mill. The villagers loaded corn on their wooden carts which dragged the horses to the mill. Just grinding the corn was also quite tedious and it took people days to finish grinding the corn. When they finished grinding, they poured corn flour into sacks and returned the flour home on the same wooden carts pulled by horses.
Today it is all different. Today, corn is sown by machine, when corn grows, it is harvested by machine. Corn is no longer dried in the air, but in a drying machine. Today, it is transported by trucks. Grinding is done in electric mills and it only takes a few hours to get corn flour, while before it took a few days to get such flour.
I wanted to make identical breads from that time.
From the ingredients, I needed 1 egg, a little sunflower oil, a little wheat flour, and one baking powder.
I took one bowl and poured an egg into it, I stirred it, then I poured the other ingredients and added a little salt. I whipped it all well by hand. When everything was combined into one mixture, I poured it into a baking pan and put it to bake for about 30 minutes. The mixture we have prepared needs to be thin, ie not too thick.
