Country Bread

Psomi Horiatico

Preparation info
  • Makes

    One

    8 inch round bread
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Foods of Greece

By Aglaia Kremezi

Published 1993

  • About

Horiatico is usually made with a combination of wheat and barley flour. Bread called horiatico can be found in bakeries all over the country, in many different varieties: with whole wheat flour, sometimes with a little cornmeal, which makes it yellow; with or without sesame seeds; and so forth. This bread is supposed to imitate the homemade bread still found in many villages, but the taste and texture of the store-bought version is completely different.

The homemade ve