Bakehouse (building)
Building for baking bread
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A bakehouse is a building for baking bread. The term may be used interchangeably with the term "bakery", although the latter commonly includes both production and retail areas.[1]
Designated bakehouses can be found in archaeological sites from ancient times, e.g., in Roman forts.[2]
Historically there have been many types of bakehouses: individual, in the backyards of homesteads; communal, used by residents of a village or a town, and commercial.
Some of them used to be nothing but a huge oven, called oven-houses.
Gallery
- The Bakehouse (Dirmstein), Germany
- An oven-house (four a pain maison), Saint-Rivoal, France
- A town bakehouse, Gönnern, Germany
- A village bakehouse, Saint-Nicolas-de-Macherin, France
See also
- Tandoor
- Communal oven
References
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