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Baking continues to be many cultures' favorite technique for creating snacks, desserts, and accompaniments to meals for several years. Now, it's very well-known because the method for creating sweets and all sorts of wondrous mouthwatering pastries. In ancient history, the first evidence of baking occurred when humans took wild grass grains, soaked it in water, and mixed everything together, mashing it right into a type of broth-like paste. Then, the paste was cooked by pouring it onto a set, hot rock, resulting in a bread-like substance. Later, this paste was roasted on hot embers, which made bread-making easier, as it could now be made anytime fire was created. Around 2500 B.C., records show that the Egyptians already had bread, and could have actually learned the process from the Babylonians. The Greek Aristophanes, around 400 B.C., also recorded information that showed that tortes with patterns and honey flans existed in Greek cuisine. Dispyrus was also created by the Greeks around that point and widely popular; would be a donut-like bread produced from flour and honey and shaped inside a ring; soaked in wine, it had been eaten when hot.
Within the Roman Empire, baking flourished widely. Within 300 B.C., the pastry cook became an occupation for Romans (known as the pastillarium). This was a very highly respected profession because pastries were considered decadent, and Romans loved festivity and celebration. Thus, pastries were often cooked specifically for large banquets, and then any pastry cook who could invent new types of tasty treats, unseen at any other banquet, was highly prized. Around 1 A.D., there have been more than 3 hundred pastry chefs in Rome alone, and Cato wrote about how they created a variety of diverse foods, and flourished because of those foods. Cato speaks of a whole lot of breads; included amongst these are the libum (sacrificial cakes made with flour), placenta (groats and cress), spira (today's day flour pretzels), scibilata (tortes), savaillum (sweet cake), and globus apherica (fritters). A great choice of these, with numerous variations, different ingredients, and varied patterns, were often available at banquets and dining halls. To bake bread, the Romans used an oven using its own chimney and had grain mills to grind grain into flour.
Eventually, due to Rome, the skill of baking became widely known throughout Europe, and finally spread to the eastern parts of Asia. Bakers often baked goods both at home and then sold them in the streets-children loved their items. Actually, this scene was so common that Rembrandt illustrated a work that depicted a pastry chef selling pancakes within the streets of Germany, and young kids surrounding him, clamoring to obtain a sample. Working in london, pastry chef sold their items in handcarts, that have been very convenient shops on wheels. This way, they developed a system of "delivery" baked goods to people's households, and the demand for baked goods increased greatly as a result. Finally, in Paris, the first open-air café of baked goods was created, and baking became an established art throughout the world.
