15th – 17th Century Baking Baking became more accessible to the average person at this time, so families started to bake cakes and biscuits together. Late in the 17th century, the price of sugar went down, and refined flour became available, bringing desserts to the forefront, including pastries, pies, and iced cakes.

Ancient Egyptians have also been given credit for inventing & shaping Baking at its early stages, way back around 2600 BC. It is said that they learned this skill from Babylonians. They baked bread using yeast, which was also used for brewing beer. Interestingly, archaeologists have found bread pieces in old tombs.

Rather than exhausting all energy into manually whisking and burning to achieve singular end product, modern baking introduces machinery that paves the way of producing more with less consumption of energy and manpower.

Early humans made bread by mixing crushed grains with water and spreading the mixture on stones to bake in the sun. Later, similar mixtures were baked in hot ashes. The ancient Egyptians are credited with making the first leavened bread. Perhaps a batch of dough was allowed to stand before it was baked.

The history of baking is deep enough to encourage you to start baking at home. European and American cuisines have a high importance of baking. The cuisine looks incomplete without bread, cakes, pastries etc. that forms a major part of their food.

Before people used to bake bread by adding an edible yeast. This helped the dough to puff. But now we add artificial ingredients to for making the bread to rise or puff.

The earliest known form of baking occurred when humans took wild grass grains, soaked them in water, and mashed the mixture into a kind of broth-like paste. The paste was cooked by pouring it onto a flat, hot rock, resulting in a bread-like substance.