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Making Millet Bread

Chiostrini, Giulia; Palframan, Jef

The entry “For Making Millas” (fol. 20r) describes how to make millas, a type of millet bread, and bake it using terracotta molds. The purpose of our historical recipe reconstruction is to investigate the original identity of the dish millas in relation to the background of the anonymous author-practitioner, and to analyze the recipe alongside relevant contemporary and modern sources.

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