Lebanese family tradition is baking because culinary food heritage and heirloom recipes are inherited from one generation to another. Family heirloom dessert, pastry, and bread recipes are brought about by Lebanese culture and family. Lebanese baking is no less uncooking but culinary food because it is at a higher level than the reunification of families and feeling the sense of belongingness.
Homely kitchens nationwide are where celebrations and religious holidays become communal experiences. Baking is a collective family effort, with all members contributing his/her bit in preparing foods traditionally made from scratch with newly learned fresh vegetables and fruits bought hours before. Manakish—za’atar bread or cheese-bread—is likely to have been pre-cooked, in bulk, an act of do-it-yourself and mass action.
Its use of local fruits or home-made fruit is a deliberate step towards country patriotism for country kitchen culture and heritage. Its use of the highest quality of domestic pastry and bread in pasting is a genuine step towards kitchen tradition. Each of its pastry rolls or bread is not only a replication of tried-and-proven recipes but a hands-down generation tradition.
These traditional old-fashioned sweets like knafeh and maamoul have remained at the center of celebratory occasions such as Eid, Christmas, and wedding parties. Each household had generations of members who just went on producing such traditional sweets, and each new generation of parents to create some kind of innovation in creating the texture and proportion of the taste which contributes to making such recipes classics for decades. This went on making Lebanese food tradition alive and kicking.
The children have to buy first-time baked goods, where they can earn it in coming years. The kneading and rolling are excellent and good etiquette that test the little children to be a well-behaved table member.
Lebanese families also receive opportunities for the practice of their culture when they bake since besides enjoying a cost-free domestic source of materials, there is also through family closeness that is attained. They attain product heritage of the new product by baking, which is simple to transmit and practice cultural identity through the extended family relationship.
