Information and IdeasEasyMain idea about a rediscovered recipe
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A recipe for a spiced bread, written in the margin of a 1780s account book, was tried by a museum's kitchen volunteers last year. The bread was dense and bitter, and the volunteers concluded that either tastes have changed or a key ingredient had gone unrecorded.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. A recreated eighteenth-century bread turned out unappealing, leaving the volunteers unsure whether tastes or the recipe were to blame.Correct
- B. The bread was delicious.
- C. The account book was from the 1980s.
- D. The museum sells the bread in its café.
Answer: A. A recreated eighteenth-century bread turned out unappealing, leaving the volunteers unsure whether tastes or the recipe were to blame.
Dense and bitter, with two possible explanations: the text's whole content.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The bread was delicious.
- 'Dense and bitter.'
- C. The account book was from the 1980s.
- 1780s, not 1980s.
- D. The museum sells the bread in its café.
- No sale is mentioned.
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