pain d'egalite

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(Noun) ''Equality bread," bread made from whole wheat rather than white flour during the French Revolution.

Usage: People were forbidden to use expensive white flour and instead had to eat pain d'egalite made from whole wheat flour.

pain d'egalite

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(Noun) The baking of this bread was authorized by a decree from the Constituent Assembly because of a shortage of white flour during the Revolutionary Wars. The recipe is in fact ¾ wheat and ¼ rye with the bran included.

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