The Problem and its Settings

Historical Background

The occurrence of bread making has been said to have been known to man 30,000 years ago. Flour was processed into unleavened bread. Among Europian countries, diets of the people were mainly based on fats and animal proteins. Bread became staple until 10,000 years back(.http:www.google.com) The ancient Egyptians were the first people known to bake bread, around 8,000 BC. Then during the middle ages, each landlord has a bakery, which is a public oven. Housewives would prepare the dough and bring it to the baker who would lend the oven and bake the dough into bread.(http:www.nybakas.com) However, Vicent Van Dough (1882) forwarded the idea of the historical background of a bakery. He stated that the first evidence of baking occurred when human took wild grasses, soaked them in water and mixed everything together, making it into a kind of broth-like paste. The paste was cooked by pouring it into a flat, hot rock, resulting as a bread like substance. Later, this paste was roasted in hot embers which made bread making easier as it could now be made any time fire was available.(Anders Zom 1889) Seven years later, Zom reported that baking is food cooking method using prolonged dry heat acting by convection rather than by thermal radiation , normally in an oven, but also in a hot ashes or hot stove. In about 300 B.C., baking flourished wide in Rome. Later, it became a highly respected profession because of the higher demand of pastries during festivity and celebration . Thus, pastries were cooked for large banquets. In baking, the Romans used an oven with its oven chimney and hard grainmills to grind grain into flour. Bakers became popular and well known in Rome, thus the art of baking spread to the