Person who professionally produces and optionally sells breads, rolls, biscuits or cookies, and other pastry

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A. Winter & Sons, confectioners & pastry cooks, &c. : 177 Snargate Street, Dover : ball-suppers & routs attended & supplied : established 1795.

Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

A baker is carrying a tray of pies on his head. Engraving by B. Smith, 1824, after W. Hogarth.

A baker is loading uncooked dough into an oven, as baked loaves are carried away by a woman. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Plymouth: bakers working at an oven and a table. Aquatint by John Hill after A. Dibdin.

Bread, bakehouses, and bacteria : reprints of various papers / by F. J. Waldo and David Walsh.

The modern baker, confectioner and caterer : a practical and scientific work for the baking and allied trades / edited by John Kirkland ; with contributions from leading specialists and trade experts.

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Bakers

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Works from the collections

A baker is carrying a tray of pies on his head. Engraving by B. Smith, 1824, after W. Hogarth.

Bread, bakehouses, and bacteria : reprints of various papers / by F. J. Waldo and David Walsh.

The modern baker, confectioner and caterer : a practical and scientific work for the baking and allied trades / edited by John Kirkland ; with contributions from leading specialists and trade experts.

A baker is loading uncooked dough into an oven, as baked loaves are carried away by a woman. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

Bakers

Images from the collections

Images about Bakers

Works from the collections

A baker is carrying a tray of pies on his head. Engraving by B. Smith, 1824, after W. Hogarth.

Bread, bakehouses, and bacteria : reprints of various papers / by F. J. Waldo and David Walsh.

The modern baker, confectioner and caterer : a practical and scientific work for the baking and allied trades / edited by John Kirkland ; with contributions from leading specialists and trade experts.

A baker is loading uncooked dough into an oven, as baked loaves are carried away by a woman. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

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