How Bread and Pastries Were Made in the Middle Ages [Medieval Professions: Baker and Pastry Chef]
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
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We will take a look at the life of the medieval baker and the process of making bread. We will talk about the worshipful company of bakers, how medieval bakeries compare to modern bakeries, Laws regarding bread and bakers, The pasteler / pastry chef / pastry cook and how pastries were created.
This video answers questions like: How was bread made in the middle ages? how were pastries made in the middle ages? What does upper crust mean? Where does upper crust come from? Where does a baker's dozen come from? Why is a baker's dozen 13? What is a baker's dozen? How does a bread oven work?
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Growing up in Venezuela my town had traditional Italian and Portuguese bakeries. I was rather surprised to find that such places are rare in the US, and most people just get their bread, even freshly baked bread, from places like Walmart.
Yea same when I moved from my small town in Belgium to London. You don't see a lot of traditional bakeries here either
Walmart breads are good 🤗
@@KimiHayashi yeah, but i like traditional style
Yea sucks ass. Sometimes in big cities you get places like that but we don't like specialty shops for some reason
*intense baking sounds*
Ahahaha I love how the little door moves! So cute!!
I was think about this all day lol. Keep up these cool videos
Very informative video, thanks!
What I was told in culinary school was that a bakers dozen was so the 13th piece was so the baker could taste the product nefore selling to make sure it was good and flavorful
Very interesting. Thank you.
extremely helpful with my history assignment, many thanks.
You’re welcome, I’m glad my video helped :)
Very nice video. I never thought i wanted to know about this stuff but now i actually learned stuff. The punishment was crazy but yeah, very lovely video :>
Id just like to add ,this is fascinating. Very serious and important trade amongst there times ...wow it was such a staple and a need making a living ....this was so good so watch than you .😀 im Australian i love how you expanied this.
Great video!
I know that oven at 0:13
Gainsborough Old Hall.
Thank you❤
I really enjoyed your video - thanks.
"[Bread] was already a well established food product by the time the Middle Ages came about." Writing scripts cannot be easy and I guess some bloomers (sic) slip through. Bread was a well established food product in Great Britain by about 3000 BCE.
In the Medieval period most cottagers had their own mill stones. I am uncertain if they used saddle stones or the Roman style rotating stones. When the water mills got going properly
?late middle ages, a law was passed making it illegal to mill at home and the Church sent soldiers round to smash the home mills. They wanted to make money charging the cottagers for milling in the Lords or Churches mills. That is a key reason why we lost the home milling tradition in the U.K. In Austria and Germany no such law was ever passed and home milling thrives to this day there.
Cottagers also used a form of Cloam oven. These were certainly brought in with the Viking diaspora, but the Saxons may well have used them too.
I am trying to learn more about home baking in early times. Hence my visit here. Thanks for a superb overview and an enjoyable video.
So much of the home baking history has been lost, or is not being published.
Great info thank you. Wow talk about holding society back, those royal assholes pardon my French
Thank you!
Very helpful video. I want to know more. Can you suggest some books ?
Thanks! I'm sorry, I don't know any books on the topic
@@KobeanHistory ok 😔😔
How about the bread's raising agent? Fortunately we have instant yeast today, so does this mean medieval bakers only used sourdough starter?
From what I could find in the middle ages they mostly made forms of sourdough and the use of raising agents generally began somewhere in the Victorian age
They also used the foam from freshly brewed Beer, called Barm; which is full of active Yeast. This is why Bakeries were quite often built near Breweries.
They also could have used natural Wild Yeast; floating around in the air (check out "old school 48 hour bread", also on UA-cam) !
Thank you, very helpful! I am sad
god I fucking felt this
Question .the people whom would bring food to get the baker to cook gor them ...was there a fee and was this only for a certain class person or could any class have this opatunity .???
There was probably a Fee, or the Baker got a portion of the Food baked; which is how Mills charged Farmers for the grain they brought to be ground.
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but how do they make flour to make dough? it seems flour requires machinery to fine grind it.. or do they do it manually for days?
@1:30 If the Grain wasn't ground at a water or wind Mill, it was ground at home using that round handspun Mill.
Jeez...they'll whip you for distributing an undersized loaf. Midieval people didn't f**k around when it came to Bread.
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Great video!!