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Default Baking in the 18th Century

> > In Europe (specifically Scotland) and the American colonies, where was
> > baking done. Most houses would not have had ovens (would they?). Not
> > every one would have bought from a baker or had one available to them.
> > How was bread baking and cake baking accomplished?

> There were often communal ovens or the oven of the village baker where goods
> could be taken for baking. Home baking was often done in an covered iron pot
> in the coals of the fire.


In most of Scotland people lived too far from any centre for oven baking
to be possible. They made porridge or used griddles.

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