History of Baking and Bakery.

The baking of bread is one of the oldest human activities. The art of baking was developed early during the Romans Empire. It was a highly famous art at that time because the Romans loved baked items. Around 300 B.C baking was introduced as an occupation and respected profession for Romans. The first professional bakery was established in 168 B.c in Rome. These baked good promoted Baking from Europe to several parts of Asia. The bakers began to prepare bread at home in wood fire ovens and start selling them on streets. This trend became common and soon the baked product started to sold in the streets of Rome, Germany, London. On July 7 1928 a bakery named ‘Missouri’ introduced first automatic bread slicing machine which was invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder.

World war 2 directly affect the bread industries in the UK. Baking schools closed during this time and at the end of war there were absence of skilled bakers. This change the perception of bakery and new baking method introduced. The new method includes adding of chemicals to dough and premixes.

• Some Bread products are:
• Breads
• Bagels
• Doughnuts
• Muffins
• Buns
• Pastries
• Pies
• Brownies
• Cakes
• Croissant
• Cupcakes
• Cookies
• Pita
• Macroons etc

So now I would like to share my favourite Chocolate fudge Brownie recipe with you all.

CHOCOLATE FUDGE BROWNIE

Ingredients:

• Unsalted butter 1/2 cup
• castor sugar 1 cup
• Eggs 2 no
• vanilla essence few drops
• Refined flour 1/2 cup
• cooking oil 1 tablespoon
• cocoa powder 1/2 cup
• salt 1/4 teaspoon

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree celcius.
2. Lightly greased baking pan with some oil and line baking or butter paper in greased tray.
3. In a bowl combine melted butter, oil and sugar together and whisk well for about a minute. now add eggs and vanilla essence and beat until lighter in colour. it will take about 2 minutes.
4. Sift the refined flour, cocoa powder and salt with a strainer. gently fold the dry ingredients into wet ingredients. ( do not over beat the mixture)
5. Pour the batter into greased tray and bake for about 20-25 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degree celcius.
6. Remove and allow to cool at room temperature. now slice the brownie and serve with vanilla ice-cream.

You can add chopped walnut, peanuts, almond or chocochips for crunch or taste.

I hope you like the recipe. so try at your home as soon as possible.

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