Ezekiel

If you really like Ezekiel Bread - also known as Ezekiel 4:9 bread - don't read this.

Reading through the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, there's no doubts about what Turning you are in. It's a literal Prophet, he's getting pronouncements from Yahweh and passing them onto the unrepentant of Israel and Judah, with intimations of doom around the corner.  He has similarities to other Prophets in the Old Testament. Hopefully, the modern Ezekiel bread doesn't use exactly the recipe that Yahweh requested.

And at one point, he is instructed to make bread using ingredients used in this Ezekiel bread that is all the rage these days. It's part of what we might call a performance piece that Ezekiel is commanded to do, to show the people what they are in for if they continue in their ways. For 390 days, Ezekiel is to lay on his side, doing little more than eating this specific diet. After listing the ingredients in the bread - which is probably intended to sound healthy but not tasty - there is a mention of how much meat to eat daily ("twenty shekels" in weight), then how much water to drink (one-sixth of a hin). In a real instance of burying the lede, he is told to cook the bread "with dung that cometh out of a man."

Ezekiel takes this as anyone else might, especially someone in a dietary tradition that takes cleanliness seriously: that it's fine to make a point to the people that being in exile will be horrible, but not so okay to have to eat bread made using human waste every day for a year and a half. God accepts Ezekiels reticence - one can imagine the idea just got away from him -and says using cow dung will be acceptable.

Either way, one hopes the modern Ezekiel bread doesn't use exactly the recipe that Yahweh requested

⁹ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

¹⁰ And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

¹¹ Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

¹² And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

¹³ And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

¹⁴ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

¹⁵ Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.