Flatbread - A staple of ancient Roman life, flatbread is truly one of the most ancient foods that we still eat today.

Did ancient Romans eat flatbread?

For cooking the flatbread, we used the testum. Testum was a terracotta cooking vessel characteristic of ancient cuisine, used by Romans but also during the Middle Ages and Renaissance as a sort of portable oven. ... You can use instead a regular oven or a pan to cook the bread.

What type of bread did ancient Romans eat?

Wealthy Romans usually ate bread made of the best quality wheat flour (fine flour) whereas poorer Romans ate bread made of bran only (bran is the hard outer layers of grain). There was also bread made from groat grain, rye, acorn and millet.