Summary In a brief paragraph what is the history of baking?

Answer 1

History of baking

The History of Baking First Baking Course Ever Find Some Grain, a Mortar, and a Pestle Way back in the year 8,000 B.C., some clever dudes in Egypt started crushing grain with a mortar and pestle. You can bet they were surprised when after a few twists and grinds, a German chocolate cake appeared. Just kidding. They only managed to make a rudimentary form of unleavened bread sort of like a Mexican tortilla--but it was still a pretty big accomplishment. They shared this information, creating something of a baking course.

Baking Class 5000 years later Go Search for Wild Yeasts In approximately 3000 B.C. the Egyptians saw that during warm periods certain wild yeasts were attracted to multi-grain flour mixes. They were inspired to start experimenting with those wild yeasts until they came up with leavened bread Genius. These experiments and successes created some gatherings not unlike a current baking class.

Want a Baking Job in 150 B.C.? Join the Roman Guild Yes, the next big baking millstone--I mean milestone--came in 150 B.C. Baking guilds were formed in Rome and wealthy Romans started insisting on more expensive white bread.

The rest is history. Baking jobs became available after those first bakeries sprung up in Rome. Bakers started creating different types of baked goods to attract customers. Baking spread throughout Europe, with each country adding to the baked goods repertoire until someone figured out how to make the chocolate chip cookie. What a day that must have been.

Answer 2

History of Baking

Baking has been many cultures' favorite technique for creating snacks, desserts, and accompaniments to meals for many years. Now, it is very well-known as the method for creating sweets and all sorts of wondrous mouthwatering pastries. In ancient history, the first evidence of baking occurred when humans took wild grass grains, soaked it in water, and mixed everything together, mashing it into a kind of broth-like paste. Then, the paste was cooked by pouring it onto a flat, hot rock, resulting in a bread-like substance. Later, this paste was roasted on hot embers, which made bread-making easier, as it could now be made anytime fire was created. Around 2500 B.C., records show that the Egyptians already had bread, and may have actually learned the process from the Babylonians. The Greek Aristophanes, around 400 B.C., also recorded information that showed that tortes with patterns and honey flans existed in Greek cuisine. Dispyrus was also created by the Greeks around that time and widely popular; was a donut-like bread made from flour and honey and shaped in a ring; soaked in wine, it was eaten when hot.

In the Roman Empire, baking flourished widely. In about 300 B.C., the pastry cook became an occupation for Romans (known as the pastillarium). This became a very highly respected profession because pastries were considered decadent, and Romans loved festivity and celebration. Thus, pastries were often cooked especially for large banquets, and any pastry cook who could invent new types of tasty treats, unseen at any other banquet, was highly prized. Around 1 A.D., there were more than three hundred pastry chefs in Rome alone, and Cato wrote about how they created all sorts of diverse foods, and flourished because of those foods. Cato speaks of an enormous amount of breads; included amongst these are the 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. To bake bread, the Romans used an oven with its own chimney and had grain mills to grind grain into flour.

Eventually, because of Rome, the art of baking became widely known throughout Europe, and eventually spread to the eastern parts of Asia. Bakers often baked goods at home and then sold them in the streets-children loved their goods. In fact, this scene was so common that Rembrandt illustrated a work that depicted a pastry chef selling pancakes in the streets of Germany, and young children surrounding him, clamoring to get a sample. In London, pastry chef sold their goods in handcarts, which were very convenient shops on wheels. This way, they developed a system of "delivery" baked goods to people's households, and the demand for baked goods increased greatly as a result. Finally, in Paris, the first open-air café of baked goods was developed, and baking became an established art throughout the entire world.