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Making a CakeCracking eggs into a cake mix in a baking bowl. Date: 1980
Brownstone Thatches
Kneading Bread DoughKneading bread dough. Date: 1980
Dunderpate and his mother with the bakingDunderpate and his mother at home -- she is doing some baking. He tells her how he changed places with his teacher and gave all the scholars what they wanted most. Date: 1938
Bakers Double Rack TruckA bakers double rack truck for transporting numerous loaves of bread made from hardwood and wrought iron. (as in the truck is made from hardwood and wrought iron, not the bread!). 1910
Carrier pigeons at Sorrus, France, WW1Carrier pigeons enjoying a bath in a baking tin full of water at Sorrus, France, during the First World War. Date: 2 June 1918
D Carleton-Smythe. Sing a song of sixpenceSing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie... 20th century
Street Trades / BreadLondon characters: the BAKER spend his nights baking, then in the day he carries his loaves from door to door. Does he ever sleep ? Date: circa 1870
Royal Baking PowderThe boy in bed smells the griddle cakes made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER - and he ll be down to breakfast in a jiffy ! Date: 1920
Pompeii BakeryA bakery in Ancient Rome, reconstructed from the excavations at Pompeii Date: ancient
Cookery lesson, Askham Grange Prison, North YorkshireInmates at Askham Grange female training prison in North Yorkshire take part in a cookery lesson. The instructor has written a recipe for scones on the blackboard. Date: circa 1945
Bakery, Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West LondonScene in the bakery at Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London. Prisoners are making bread under the supervision of the prison cook who wears a chefs overalls and hat
Cookery by Millicent SowerbyA group of girl guides busy in a kitchen making pastry and cakes
Bosnia - Sarajevo - BakersBosnian Bakers - Sarajevo
Old bakery in St Gallen, SwitzerlandView of the decorated exterior of an old bakery in the Spiesergasse (Spisergasse), St Gallen, Switzerland
A Spooner Travelling ovenA immense Spooner Travelling Oven - with the dough for loaves of white bread entering the immense baking oven section of the machine
Baking Flatbreads at Elisabetpol, AzerbaijanBaking Flatbreads at Gjandzja (Elisabetpol), Western Azerbaijan
Education, girls, cookeryA well equipped cookery class. One girl slices, some use mixing bowls, some are at the sink washing and drying. A selection of cakes cool on baking racks in the foreground
Kitchen scene, Sofia, BulgariaA Bulgarian woman baking a cake in a kitchen in Sofia, Bulgaria
A French kitchenA chef and maid prepare a sumptuous meal in a French kitchen. Dough has been rolled out on the side board and the chef decorates a three-tiered cake with flowers
Making PastryPastry is rolled out on the sideboard, then once cooked, the maid is shown removing the pie from the oven, and then once again with plates piled up high, ready for serving
Gardener and Baker of the Womens Auxilary Army CorpDoing Their Bit. Gardener and Baker of the Womens Auxilary Army Corp during the First World War
Cottage Life in Warwickshire: Baking DayIllustration from 1872 showing a scene in a Warwickshire village with women baking bread. Small rural communities would often have only one bread oven which would be fired up on specific days to bake
Mobile IronmongerA mobile ironmonger from Hirst Martock, Somerset, his lorry piled high with pots and pans, bath tubs, baking trays, lino etc
Apricot Jam BiscuitsDelicious home-made apricot jam ring biscuits, still warm from the oven and on their baking tray
Royal Baking Powder 1919Royal Baking Powder
Sugar Fill-HouseSugar is normally sold in the form of large loaves, shaped like dunces caps : these are prepared in the fill-house before baking in the oven
Cooking & Baking 1940SThe grandmother of the house struggles to make ends meet and cooks the best meals she can with the rations she has. Her daughter rolls out pastry for baking with a rolling pin
The Pretty Pastry CookShe is captioned The Pretty Pastry Cook but the proof of her pies will be in the eating. (note an early example of a tradesperson using a paper bag.)
Baking Sunday DinnerA baker baking Sunday dinner
Learning to Roll PastryTwo little girls (Princess Victoria and Princess Alice) are taught by their mother (Queen Victoria) how to roll pastry and make jam
Housewife CookingA woman holds a hot pan
16C Scandinavian BakersBaking in progress in 16th century Scandinavia
French Boulangers BakeFrench boulangers at work
Baking Raspberry PieA Victorian girl making a gooseberry pie with help from mother
Kingsteignton RoastingA whole ram is basted as it roasts suspended on a spit over 2 baking trays at the Ram Roasting Fair, Kingsteignton, Devon. A group of hungry locals look on
York Baking Bread (2)Baking bread - making rolls and loaves; from the Ordinances of the Gild of Bakers of York (2 of 2)
Food and Drink / BakingA French patissier in his kitchen
Housemaid Baking 1886Thursday: The housemaid bakes bread, cakes and other goodies
Woman in kitchen, breaking eggA woman in her kitchen, breaking an egg
Cooking Puff PastryA woman makes various things out of puff pastry
BAKER 1827A baker kneading dough. He wears an apron and there is a bundle of sticks of firewood (for the kiln) beside him
New Mexican Baking 1908New Mexico : women of the Acoma people bake their bread in a communal outdoor oven shared by a number of families
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