Monday, 31 July 2017

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 ALL ABOUT BAKING AND CAKING

Baking is one art that requires perseverance and hardwork. Baking as a craft is as old as civilisation. The art of baking was invented when the early man gathered grains, soaked them in water and made a mixture of all of them. They , then grounded all of them to make a paste. The paste was then cooked. This is how the world’s first bread was made. Later when human beings learnt the use of fire,the process of bread making became easier as the human beings  roasted everything on hot embers.


The world’s first oven was discovered in Croatia dating some 6500 years old. The Egyptians were perhaps the first to bake bread using yeast. Apart from Egypt, ovens have been discovered in various other places like Turkey, Palestine etc. in the Roman empire, baking flourished full fledgedly.


Fast forwarding to the modern world , baking is one craft, that became vogue post world war. Baking became even more popular as quality of ovens improved.
In India, too, baking has become popular specifically with the classes. Several baking institutes have opened throughout the country due to this fact. These baking institutes offer various baking and pastry classes and baking and confectionery courses. 


These courses are taught by expert patissiers who are a master in their craft. These institutes hold part time courses for those students who don’t want to follow the full time routine. These courses are quite popular with students and housewives who  do not have enough time to go through a full time course.  The baking training courses offered by these baking institutes aim at creating expert patissiers out of a scratch.


Baking we can see is one art that has come a long way when simple mixture of grains were grounded and heated to make breads. With the advent of time, as the technique of heating and using oven improved, the art of baking saw oa major breakthrough.

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