Century that cakes, pies, breads, biscuits, crackers started to bake?!
Century that cakes, pies, breads, biscuits, crackers started to bake?
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Cake Info:
Cake is a term with a long history (the word is of Viking origin, from the Old Norse kaka) and denotes a baked flour confection sweetened with sugar or honey; it is mixed with eggs and often, but not invariably, with milk and fat; and it has a porous texture from the mixture rising during cooking.
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http://www.foodmuseum.com/excake2.html...
http://whatscookingamerica.net/history/c...
Pie Info:
The pie has been around since about 2000 B.C., around the time of the ancient Egyptians. At some point between 1400 B.C. (the time of Greek settlements) and 600 B.C. (the time of the decline of Egypt), the pie is believed to have been passed on to the Greeks by the Egyptians.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pie...
Bread Info:
In Egypt, around 1000 BC, inquiring minds isolated yeast and were able to introduce the culture directly to their breads.
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http://www.breadinfo.com/history.shtml...
Biscuit Info:
The origin of the word "biscuit" is from Latin via Middle French and means "twice cooked". Some of the original biscuits were British naval hard tack. That was passed down to American culture, and hard tack (biscuits) was made through the 19th century.
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Davidson says cookies based on creaming butter and sugar together probably didn’t come on the scene until the 18th century. A great profusion of cookie recipes occurred in the 19th century, as the price of sugar and flour dropped, and chemical leavening agents, such as baking soda became available.
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http://www.ochef.com/25.htm
Cracker Info:
According to the Almanac, both crackers and their predecessors were born in New England. In 1792, John Pearson of Newburyport, Massachusetts, made a cracker-like bread product from just flour and water that he called "pilot bread." An immediate hit with sailors because if its shelf life, it also became known as hardtack or sea biscuit.
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http://gonewengland.about.com/library/bl...
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