What did they eat? How did they cook? – West Earlham Junior School

We discovered a possible answer to two more of our questions in our current guided reading book. The Neolithic people ground flour from seeds, mixed in with water to make a dough and cooked the bread on stones heated by fire. We were excited to try this in our Neolithic archaeology experiment!

First, we dug a pit in our Neolithic site.

Next, our adult lit a fire within the pit.

After that, we fed the fire with grass and foraged fire wood until the fire was filling the pit.

Then, we placed a flat stone on top of some bricks which heated up.
Initially, we tried to cook the dough we had made using long sticks but this didn’t work very well. The dough stayed uncooked in the middle!

Eventually, we discovered that the bread cooked quicker if it was really thin. We put it straight on the stone!
Finally, we found out the bread on sticks cooked if you held it in the fire. You had to be careful you didn’t set it on fire though!

It was the best bread that some of us had ever tasted even if we were a bit dirty afterwards!It must have been so much work just to make one little piece of bread!