Transcript Baking in Colonial Times

Baking in Colonial Times
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By Tiffany Chen 7A1 ID4
Who Cooked in Colonial Times?
In colonial times, women would usually stay home and cook
for the men and children. The colonial women would work all day non
stop to make sure that their families had a healthy and nutritious
meal. One major type of cooking that the colonial women do is that
they baked. Women would bake cookies, pies, and of course breads!!
Colonial food would usually be very bland, because in those times
the ingredients used were not very tasteful.
How Did People Bake?
The women who baked had to prepare all of their ingredients and their
tools. In colonial times, any type of work was done manually. That meant that the
women had to make their own butter and they would sometimes have to improvise
and create their own ingredients. Most ingredients had to be measured in order to
get the right amount of that specific item. Some backing tools were the fire spoon
to carry hot coals, a sugar cutter used to get pieces of sugar, a quern used to
grind corn into cornmeal, a butter churn was used to turn cream into butter, a
waffle iron was used to make waffles, etc. Women who baked had to have lots of
talent and skill in order to make tasty treats.
Where Did People Bake?
Colonial baking was done in an oven
made of clay. The oven was hand made and in
order for it to work, you had to place several
coals in the opening of the oven and light it on
fire. To check the temperature of the oven and
to see if the oven was hot enough, you would
have to put your hand above the fire. When
your hand was above the fire, you would count
from the #1 and see how long it would take for
the oven to heat up and get very hot. If it took a
long time to heat up you would have to raise
the fire, if it was too hot you would have to
lower it. Any type of baking was done outside
of the house. The inside kitchen in the house or
tavern would be separated from the main part
of the building. For example, that would be like
the living room.
What Did People Bake?
There were many delicious foods in Colonial America. Some of them
are…….
• The traditional “white Loaf”.
• Johnny Cakes
• Hot Breads
• Hot Biscuits
• Corn Breads
• Apple Tansey
• Pies
• Cobblers
• Cakes
• Macaroons
• Sweet Tarts
What Were the Ingredients in the
Baked Goods?
Some of the important ingredients in the baked
goods were…..
• Flour
• Sugar
• Eggs
• Salt
• Corn
• Cornmeal
• Water
• Butter
Bibliography
• http://www.historyisfun.org/colonialbaking.html
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcolonial.html
http://www.oldecolonybakery.com
http://www.foodhistory.com/foodnotes
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/forestakms/sitepages/academics/socialstudies/colonisttimes/aker.html
http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/autumn04/food.cfm
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/
CO030.html
http://recipes.lovetoknow.com/wiki/information_about_
colonial_baking
Bibliography (cont.)
• http://colonialbaker.net/
• http://www.home.educatingtoday.com/plan_colonial.html
• http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,colonialtimes,FF.html
• Recipes from the Raleigh Tavern Bake Shop [book] –by
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.