Egyptians tried to earn their way into a better afterlife sometimes by giving basics of life to the gods and to their fellow man. One of the basics they offered to the gods and man was food. A basic Egyptian diet was generally bread and beer for a meal. Bread making was a complex and varied process full of experimentation. It has been thought by some that probably they often prepared the bread alongside their beer making and that perhaps sometimes some beer splashed into the bread dough adding yeast to the dough. It is believed that is how they probably discovered yeast breads. All sorts of bread slowly evolved and were offered to gods and man accompanied by supplications and prayers for the gods blessings.
The ancient wheat Emer emerges from the University of Worship. It is grown and then processed into a flat disc shaped unleavened bread which is portable and can be used to add a slight time bonus to food stats when used in conjunction to foods eaten in a kitchen. Taken just before those food timers end and with the following (or similar) blessing emote it adds an extra 10% to the time the stats last.
Five Egyptians gather together in one of their "homes" (determined by owning a certain % of property (chests and compounds) around). They share a beer (of any kind) offered by the home owner and then want to try to create a leavened bread to share with each other and to use to reach out to at least one other Egyptian at a special time in his/her life as a good deed. They want to show a god (that they are yet uncertain of) that they live a good life and want to earn a deserved wonderful afterlife someday as well, through worship and good deeds.
They will use the basic Emer wheat flatbread they already have as a base for this bread and will bake 3 (minimum) or more loaves on baking molds placed in a row on a bed of embers. But first they need the identity, blessings, and wisdom of their god!
They make the ground Holy by each doing a different basic worship emote to ask for blessings and guidance on how to best please the god. Each emote is accompanied by a prayer repeated where all can hear. (in main)
After all emotes and prayers are correctly submitted to the god a popup emerges simultaneously for each servant with special instructions.
The first servant receives a revealing of the gods name. He becomes the leader of prayers. He will need to construct several blessings using that name and praise the god and also lift up those around him as well as himself in prayer for blessings. Prayers will need to be said during the baking of the bread, during the sacrifice of the bread to the god, and during the sharing of the bread with others. (at least 3 blessings all listing the gods name and calling for blessings on those that prepared or received it by name)
The second receives instructions for a few inexpensive special ingredients to add to the dough and is the baker for this Holy leavened bread. He must prepare a bonfire, let it burn to embers and then place the bread dough into heavy pottery bread molds in a row on the embers adding the special ingredients called for. Special ingredients should be inexpensive and simple things like another grain other than wheat, perhaps an egg, dates, figs, honey, citrus fruit or citrus honeys, coconut milk.)
The third servant is in charge of making the bread quality special and adding the the yeast to make it lighter and less common than the usual heavy coarse breads. He must supply a common beer named in his popup to add to the bread as it cooks to add yeast to the bread and make it rise as a bread of the gods should do!
The fourth servant has received instructions for a ritual to be done as the bread is shared and sacrificed. He represents that bread making is a daily part of Egyptian life just as is prayer, hard work, and good deeds. He will have received additional instructions for a series of five everyday common activities such as light a candle, grow some flax, grow certain vegetables, fish, gather clay to show reverence for everyday work as a good deed earning the gods favor. He can do this while the bread bakes. He then takes one loaf of bread and places it on the ground and goes thru all 5 emotes offering it to the god. A second loaf is taken by him and given to each person in the 5 servants group one at a time to share. He gives the third and any consequent bread and gives to the 5th servant.
The fith servant is the one who got the last emote. The last emote tells that an additional portion of bread must also be gifted and shared in person as a group to one of a certain type of fellow Egyptian. Offering bread to your fellow man is certainly a good deed that the gods would be pleased by! (I suggest the following type of list that would be especially celebratory occassions not tied to success, wealth, or popularity: a new citizen not over 30 days old in Egypt, a newlywed not married over 30 days, a person who just passed an initiation in a disicpline, a person who has just built their first compound, etc.) Once the type of named person is given the group can gift one loaf of bread to each person fitting that description that they wish to do as long as the bread was all baked at the same time going through this ritual. The bread will give those eating a blessed bread including the person given a gift of the bread a +1 for one day in one of the basic stats and will be linked to the god that has been worshipped.
Points are accumulated for each time this ritual is fully completed in all its steps. Addtional points are gained for sharing the bread with more people that fit the special list of the 5th servant. Passes are competitive pass by accumulated points similar to Pilgrim passes.
I suggest as a test pass reward that the test passers get the ability to bake bread in a special bread oven that make a portable bread that gives +1 stats for one day in the different areas of percep, strength, focus, endurance, speed, dexterity depending on the bread recipie and ingredients.
<Esme> Heavy pottery baking molds were set in rows on a bed of embers to bake the dough
placed within them.
<Esme> Later one square hearths were used and the pottery moulds were altered into tall
narrow, almost cylindrical cones.
<Esme> Further on in time, they developed an oven with a large, open clay cylinder encased
in thick mud bricks and mortar. The flat disks of dough (perhaps leavened) were
slapped into teh preheated inner oven wall. When baked they peeled off and were
caught before they could fall into embers below.
<Esme> A wide variety of bread loaves were found in numerous tombs and are all sorts of
sizes, shapes, and decorations...including recognizable shapes such as fish and
human figures.
<Esme> Others were simple and just disk or fan shaped
<Esme> Some doughs had finer textures and others were somewhat mealy. Other whole or coarsely
cracked cooked grains were added making one of the first multigrained breads.
Special flavorings such as honey, butter, eggs, oil and herbs, fruits were
ocassionally added later on. Yeast is suspected to have developed from bread
making near beer brewing since beer and bread was the staple meal of the day and
only the rich ate better than that.
<Esme> Sometimes copper sheets were used as baking pans in the sun also in the earlier
days.
<Esme> Egyptians gave offerings of bread to the gods as well as to one another trying to
insure a better after life thru good deeds.
<Esme> They spendt alot of their time on their bread making.