Surprisingly the supermarket has one of our favourite just-out-of-the-oven breads two days in a row. And still warm this time. This one is called Ramadan pidesi. Literally Ramadan pita. Recipes vary but the result is always a flat(ish) bread with a woven appearance on top covered with sesame seeds. Can be either sourdough or yeast.
Does seem rather a shame that it’s baked in the afternoon so that we get to eat it while it’s still warm - and can rarely hold off starting long enough to take its photo with no bits broken off - while those actually observing Ramadan have to wait until after sunset. Though presumably most of them have ways to reheat the bread if they haven’t made their own.
Suspect that most people don’t bake their own bread here. Bags of flour most often contain one kilo of flour, sometimes two. I bake entirely with whole wheat flour and find the two kilo bags not easy to obtain. At home would rarely buy smaller than ten kilo.
So today the fast time would end at 7:23. The meal that follows is a happy gathering and this bread is often included. Not a feast but not penitential. Warm and familial.
And as the days grow longer so does the daytime fast. A week from today daylight savings time begins for those European countries that observe it. That won’t create more hours of daylight of course, but it will move Ishtar, the family meal after sunset, one hour later.
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