Baking
Baking
Baking
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2 2 BAKING IN ANCIENT TIMES
“Ovens and worktables have been discovered in archaeo- the streets of Germany, with children clamoring for a
logical digs from Turkey (Hacilar) to Palestine (Jericho) sample. In London, pastry chefs sold their goods from
and date back to 5600 BC.”[5] handcarts. This developed into a delivery system of
Baking flourished during the Roman Empire. Begin- baked goods to households and greatly increased demand
ning around 300 BC, the pastry cook became an occu- as a result. In Paris, the first open-air café of baked
pation for Romans (known as the pastillarium) and be- goods was developed, and baking became an established
came a respected profession because pastries were con- art throughout the entire world.
sidered decadent, and Romans loved festivity and cele-
bration. Thus, pastries were often cooked especially for
large banquets, and any pastry cook who could invent new
types of tasty treats was highly prized. Around 1 AD,
there were more than three hundred pastry chefs in Rome,
and Cato wrote about how they created all sorts of diverse
foods and flourished professionally and socially because
of their creations. Cato speaks of an enormous number
of breads including; libum (sacrificial cakes made with
flour), placenta (groats and cress), spira (our modern day
flour pretzels), scibilata (tortes), savaillum (sweet cake),
and globus apherica (fritters). A great selection of these,
with many different variations, different ingredients, and
varied patterns, were often found at banquets and dining
halls. The Romans baked bread in an oven with its own
Schulze Baking Company Factory (1914–15)
chimney, and had mills to grind grain into flour. A bak-
ers’ guild was established in 168 BC in Rome.[4]
Every family used to prepare the bread for
its own consumption, the trade of baking, not
3 Commercial baking having yet taken shape.
Mrs Beeton (1861)[7]
4 Equipment
Baking needs an enclosed space for heating – typically in
an oven. The fuel can be supplied by wood, coal, gas,
or electricity. Adding and removing items from an oven
may be done by hand with an oven mitt or by a peel, a
long handled tool specifically used for that purpose.
Many commercial ovens are equipped with two heating
elements: one for baking, using convection and thermal
conduction to heat the food, and one for broiling or
grilling, heating mainly by radiation. Another piece
of equipment still used for baking is the Dutch oven.
“Also called a bake kettle, bastable, bread oven, fire pan,
bake oven kail pot, tin kitchen, roasting kitchen, doufeu
(French: “gentle fire”) or feu de compagne (French:
“country oven”) [it] originally replaced the cooking jack
as the latest fireside cooking technology,” combining “the
convenience of pot-oven and hangover oven.”[10]
Asian cultures have adopted steam baskets to produce
the effect of baking while reducing the amount of fat
Baked goods
needed.[11]
7. Gases evaporate
7 See also
Baking matzot at Kfar Chabad
9 Bibliography
• Figoni, Paula (2010). How Baking Works: Exploring
• List of ovens the Fundamentals of Baking Science (3 ed.). Wiley.
• Sheet pan ISBN 978-0470392676.—a textbook on baking and
setting up a bakery
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