Bread Recipe (Ain-I-Akbar)

Bread is made in the pantry. There is a large kind, baked in an oven, made of:

10 s. Flour

5 s. Milk

1½ s. Ghee

¼ s. Salt.

They make also smaller ones. The thin kind is baked on an iron plate. One sér will give fifteen, or even more. There are various ways of making it: one kind is called Chapati, which is sometimes made of khushkah; it tastes very well, when served hot.

For the bread used at court, one man of wheat is made to yield ½ m. of fine flour; 2 s. coarsely pounded flour; and the rest bran; if this degree of fineness be not required, the proportions are altered.

Food Weights and Measures

Note: One Seer has about 7 cups of flour, so the 15 units refers modern size of Naan.

Modern Naan Recipe

Naan