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A bakehouse is a building for baking bread. The term may be used interchangeably with the term "
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A bakehouse is a building for baking bread. The term may be used interchangeably with the term "bakery
A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based food baked in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, donuts, pastries, and pies. Some retail bakeries are also categorized as cafés, serving coffee and tea to customers who w ...
", although the latter commonly includes both production and retail areas.
Designated bakehouses can be found in archaeological sites from ancient times, e.g., in Roman forts
In the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, the Latin word ''castrum'', plural ''castra'', was a military-related term.
In Latin usage, the singular form ''castrum'' meant 'fort', while the plural form ''castra'' meant 'camp'. The singular and ...
.''Housesteads Roman Fort
Housesteads Roman Fort is the remains of an Auxilia, auxiliary castra, fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland, England, south of Broomlee Lough. The fort was built in stone around AD 124, soon after the construction of the wal ...
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homestead
Homestead may refer to:
*Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses
* Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres
*Homestead principle, a legal concept t ...
s; 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
Bakehouse (Dirmstein)
The Bakehouse (german: Backhaus) is a historical bakehouse in Dirmstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, designated as an item of the cultural heritage.Saint-Rivoal
Saint-Rivoal (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
Population
Inhabitants of Saint-Rivoal are called in French ''Saint-Rivoaliens''.
Breton language
As of 2010 and previous years, all primary-scho ...
, France
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Saint-Nicolas-de-Macherin
Saint-Nicolas-de-Macherin () is a commune in the Isère department within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in southeastern France. The area of the commune is 1,060 hectares and the altitude lies between 447 and 952 meters.
The town is located 5 km fr ...
, France
See also
*List of baked goods
This is a list of baked goods. Baked goods are foods made from dough or batter and cooked by baking, a method of cooking food that uses prolonged dry heat, normally in an oven, but also in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item ...
* Tandoor
A tandoor ( or ) is a large urn-shaped oven, usually made of clay, originating from the Indian Subcontinent. Since antiquity, tandoors have been used to bake unleavened flatbreads, such as roti and naan, as well as to roast meat. The tandoo ...
* Communal oven
The ''four banal'' (English: common oven) was a feudal institution in medieval France. The feudal lord (French: ''seigneur'') often had, among other banal rights, the duty to provide and the privilege to own all large ovens within his fief, each ...
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