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Three round golden Belizean fry jacks with separate bowls of refried beans, chopped tomato, and grated Monterey Jack cheese.
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Belizean fry jacks (CIA course version)

A Belizean fried breakfast bread made from baking-powder dough with evaporated milk, shaped into rounds and fried until golden.

Belize
· Grains and starches
finished maize porridge

Mieliepap

South Africa's maize-meal porridge, which the same white meal turns into a soft breakfast pap, a firm sliceable mound or the separate moist granules of phuthu depending only on water and handling.

South Africa · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Photograph of Wheat-flour tortillas.

Wheat-flour tortillas

A soft wheat-flour tortilla made with baking powder and a fat, rolled and cooked dry on a hot griddle. The King Arthur version is contemporary and distinct from nixtamalized maize tortillas.


Grains and starches
An illustrative still life of rinsed nixtamal kernels, freshly ground masa on a stone metate, and a plain tortilla; not a specific historical scene.

Nixtamal and masa

Whole maize cooked and steeped overnight in lime water, washed of its skins and excess lime, then ground into the moist dough used for tortillas.

Mexico · Traditional method
Grains and starches
Illustrative serving of off-white eba, molded into a soft dome on a plain plate.

Eba

Eba is a West African dish of cooked gari, stirred into hot water until it forms a thick paste. It is a cooking stage with no new fermentation, served with soup.

Nigeria
Grains and starches
A dark Jamaican Easter spice bun quick-bread loaf with fruit-studded slices and cheddar on a pale platter.

Jamaican Easter spice bun

A Jamaican Easter loaf made from a dark, sweet batter of stout, dried fruit and warm spices. This version uses baking powder and a loaf pan; yeast-raised variations are separate preparations.

Jamaica · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Thick barley and oat porridge topped with diced apple and chopped hazelnuts in a stoneware bowl.

Barley and oat porridge (Viking Age)

Crushed or milled barley cooked in water until the starch softens and the mixture thickens, the plainest way a northern household turned stored grain into a meal, here with apple and hazelnut.

Sweden · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A golden braided Peremyshl-region style korovai ring with a small round memento loaf beside it.

Korovai (Peremyshl-region style)

A Peremyshl-region Ukrainian wedding bread made from sweet yeast dough, shaped as a large braided round with a smaller memento loaf.

Ukraine · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative present-day whole-wheat puris, puffed and blistered from deep-frying; not a pani-puri shell or stuffed variant.

Whole-wheat puri (poori)

Firm whole-wheat dough rolled into small rounds and deep-fried until puffed. This version is unleavened and distinct from Bengali refined-flour luchi.

India · Modern method
· Grains and starches