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1 The History of Baking
1 The History of Baking
1 The History of Baking
OF BAKING
BREAD AND PASTRY PRODUCTION
History of Baking
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➢ Baking is the process by which food is subjected to dry heat in an enclosed device
called oven.
➢ In the early days, baking was linked closely with the bread making.
➢ Baking Started when man discovered wild edible grains that grew in their hunting trails.
➢ Man later learned how to grind them between stones, thereby producing a powdery
grain called flour.
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➢ Flour when mixed with water yields dough. This mixture was spread on heated stones
to produce bread that was flat, heard on the outside but soft inside.
➢ This method of baking was introduced by the Swiss lake dwellers 8,000 years ago and
was practiced in Ancient civilization like Babylonia, Assyria, and Egypt.
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➢ The first improvement on this flat bread was a discovery in 3,000 B.C by a baker in
Royal Egyptian household and came up with raised loaf bread.
➢ Marked the beginning of leavened Bread.
➢ In 17th century, leavening process was scientifically studied through a microscope.
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➢ The yeast cells were identified to be responsible for the formation of air bubbles in the
dough causing it to rise.
➢ Heat during baking causes the rising action in the dough.
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➢ The milling process, started with the used of hollowed-out stones where grains were
pounded with a round stone.
➢ Later, the Egyptians shaped this stones into a bigger mortar-and-pestle-like structure.
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➢ The Greeks in 600 B.C invented the hourglass, a device composed of a bin or hopper
where grains was poured and two stones moved against each other and ground the
grain into powder. Animals and man proved the power to move it.
➢ The Romans in 100 B.C also used the hourglass but instead of animals and men, they
utilized wind and water to move it.
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12 IN THE PHILIPPINES
➢ Wheat was cultivated in the Philippines particularly in the provinces of Batangas, Laguna,
Cavite, and Cagayan as early as the 17th century for the purpose of making Eucharistic
wafers during the Spanish era.
➢ With coming of the Americans, the importation of wheat flour in the United States
began.
➢ When flour mills were established in the late 50’s, importations shifted from flour to
wheat grains.
History of Baking
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