In search of Israeli bread recipe

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ryeme on 30 Oct 2010 at 19:52

Hi,

I'm in search of what my fiancee describes as "typical Israeli bread you buy in the supermarket." She says it had a soft crust, was probably a light wheat and had an indescribable (apparently) flavor.

My initial searches on this site and googling turned up only one possible example that I'm not sure fills the bill -- haven't tried it yet as I just printed it out.

Grateful for any help!

Ryeme

 

 

Hi,

I live in israel. our daily bread from the supermarket is just a regular white wheat  sandwich loaf.

we dont call it "Israel bread" it is just a cheap simple bread.

If you insist to find an Israeli bread, i Think the "Pita" bread is more common.

we eat "Falaphel" with pita bread.

 

I lived in Israel many years, as far as I know there are 2 regular bread ; White bread and Black bread (le'hem lavan, le'hem sha'hor) The first is wheat bread, the other one seem to be a light sourdough rye bread. Both have the consistancy of a sandwish bread. the white bread in my opinion was tasteless but the other one was pretty good. like a sourdough bread it will dry and get sour if not eat in two days.Their are industrialy produced and baked in eliptic tin. their crust surface is smooth and soft, the color of dark honey, and they are about 10 cms high, all this indicate in my humble knowledge that it was a wet dough.The dark bread was smaller than the white. A part of those bread, people will regularly buy Pitah bread. Having moved between 3 countries I now know that the flavour of what you were used from your first one (childhood) will never gone and anything similar in bread, meat or even fruits will never be the same. You get use to the new but always yearn for the old one. Good luck. Batsheva - Bee
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ryeme on 31 Oct 2010 at 19:40

Thank you both for your responses. Yuval, I am very familiar with pita and falafel, as both are popular in the States.

Batsheva - Bee, you are probably right that fond memories may be coloring this search. I have baked plenty of sourdough ryes, wheat breads and Russian black breads with no cries of recognition.

The search will probably continue until we finally visit Israel together ...

 

 

Now in 2019, you can find in Israel any type of bread. Also, there are many traditional bread recipes that came from different people from different countries like Yemen bread or Marocco traditional bread. I think it will be interesting to bake them both