So many countries, so many customs. Most European countries baked the bread in oven, thus obtaining the typical dark brown skin and soft white interior. The northern Europian peoples spread on sourdough - sour bread, which the added rye will be dark inside, but the cooking process is the same - European. Icelandic people can only use not too mach nature things, because there are very low the number of trees. Therefore for frying and cooking they had to find other heat sources. They find the perfect heat sources! There are lot of still working geyser, burst of steam supply from the ground. This geysers and plenty of the soil are 80 - 100 °C (176 - 212 F) hot. They provide sufficient heat to the preparation of bread. Thus was born the hverabrauð!
Travelling through the icelandic gastronomy: The steam bread
