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Baking Khubuz (Arab Bread)
- Creator
- Cobb, John Candler, II, 1919-2016
- Creation Date
- 1942/11
- Who
- WWII driver
- When
- WWII
- Where
- Middle East
- license
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The oven was made of adobe like a Southwest Pueblo Indian “Horno”, but the opening was at the top. The women pressed the dough onto the walls of the oven to bake after the fire was out. The flat round loaves of khubus were thick, light, and tasty.
Location: Kafate, Syria.