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What is the name of the Upper Egyptian method of mud-brick oven baking where the opening is sealed with clay, trapping steam so that the bread steams and bakes simultaneously?
Answer: Shamsi bread technique — Shamsi ('sun') bread, an Upper Egyptian speciality, is a thick leavened loaf baked in a domed mud oven where the baker seals the mouth with a clay-smeared lid — trapping steam inside so the bread swells into a dense, chewy disc with a pale top and dark, sesame-seed-crusted bottom.
- A Furn baladi sealing
- B Tabun burial
- C Saj dome baking
- D Shamsi bread technique ✓
Shamsi ('sun') bread, an Upper Egyptian speciality, is a thick leavened loaf baked in a domed mud oven where the baker seals the mouth with a clay-smeared lid — trapping steam inside so the bread swells into a dense, chewy disc with a pale top and dark, sesame-seed-crusted bottom.