This article refers to the cooking profession. For other uses, see Baker disambiguation Image USS John C. Stennis baker.jpg 200px thumb A baker moves a tray of hot, freshly baked rolls onto a cooling rack on a ship. A baker is someone who baking bakes and Sales sells bread . Cake s and similar foods may also be produced, as the traditional boundaries between what is produced by a baker as opposed to a pastry chef have blurred in recent decades. The place where a baker Employment work s is called a bakery . Origin The first group of people to bake bread were ancient Egyptians , around 8th millennium BC 8000 BC . During the very very old ages it was common for each landlord to have a bakery, which was actually a public oven Housewives would bring dough that they had prepared to the baker, who would tend the oven and bake them into bread. As time went on, bakers would also sell their own goods, and in that some bakers acted dishonestly, tricks emerged for example, a baker would have trap door s in the oven or other obscured areas, that would allow a hidden small boy or other apprentice to take off some of the dough brought in for baking. Then the dishonest baker would sell bread made with the stolen dough as their own. This practice and others eventually lead to the famous regulation known as Assize of Bread and Ale , which prescribed harsh penalties for bakers that were found cheating their clients or customers . As a safeguard against cheating, under filled orders, or any appearance of impropriety , bakers commonly began to throw in one more loaf of bread this tradition now exists in the phrase baker s dozen , which is 13. Expand section date February 2010 By examining the listed ... A baker s shop in Oslo , Norway . Today bakers work in varying environments both as employees and sometimes ... with the paying public. Interesting facts Baker s yeast is a leavening agent . A baker s dozen ... of the phrase See also Baker percentage Baker s percentage Bread machine Cake shop Chorleywood ... more details
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Henry Baker may refer to Henry Baker naturalist 1698 1774 , English Henry Baker author Henry Williams Baker , hymn writer Henry Aaron Baker , architect Henry Baker computer scientist fl. late 20th century Henry Frederick Baker 1866 1956 , English mathematician Henry Moore Baker 1841 1912 , U.S. Representative from New Hampshire Henry Baker, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle , a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle See also Harry Baker disambiguation Henry Baker Tristram , English clergyman and ornithologist hndis Baker, Henry DEFAULTSORT Baker, Henry de Henry Baker fr Henry Baker ... more details
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Bryan Baker may refer to Bryan Baker fighter born 1985 , mixed martial artist Bryan Baker driver born 1961 , NASCAR driver See also Brian Baker disambiguation hndis Baker, Bryan ... more details
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Matthew Baker or Matt Baker may refer to Matt Baker television personality , British television presenter Matt Baker footballer , retired goalkeeper and Conservative Party politician Matt Baker American football , American football player, quarterback, used to play for Dallas Cowboys Matt E. Baker , Pennsylvania politician Matt Baker artist , comic book artist Sergeant Matt Baker , fictional videogame character Mathew Baker , Tudor shipwright hndis name Baker, Matthew DEFAULTSORT Baker, Matthew ... more details
Stephen Baker may refer to Stephen Baker New York 1819 1875 , U.S. Representative Stephen Baker Australian politician , former South Australian House of Assembly politician Stephen Baker American football born 1964 Stephen L. Baker , journalist and author of The Numerati Stephen Baker, founder of Virtual High School See also Steven Baker disambiguation for Steven Baker or Steve Baker hndis Baker, Stephen DEFAULTSORT Baker, Stephen ... more details
Christopher Baker may refer to Christopher Fangorn Baker , British science fiction artist Christopher Ryan Baker born 1986 , American golfer Christopher W Baker , British landscape Artist See also Chris Baker disambiguation Christopher Barker disambiguation hndis name Baker, Christopher DEFAULTSORT Baker, Christopher ... more details
Roy Baker may refer to Bullet Baker , Roy Bullet Baker, 1900 1961 , American football player Roy Thomas Baker born 1956 , British music producer Roy Ward Baker 1916 ndash 2010 , British film director, also credited as Roy Baker hndis Baker, Roy ... more details
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Lord Baker may refer to People John Baker, Baron Baker 1901 1985 , British scientist and civil engineer Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking born 1934 , British politician Other uses Lord Baker song , traditional English folksong disambig ... more details
David Baker may refer to Scientists, Engineers, Architects David Baker biochemist , American biochemist David H. Baker , American food chemist, winner of the Charles A. Black Award David A. Baker, aerospace engineer, co author of the Mars Direct proposal David Baker architect , American architect David Baker Gabb , ornithologist Politicians and Lawyers David J. Baker 1792 1869 , US Senator from Illinois David J. Baker, Jr. 1834 1899 , American judge, son of David J. Baker Athletes C. David Baker , former American commissioner of the Arena Football League David Baker cyclist , British Olympic mountainbike racer Dave Baker , American football player Dave Baker baseball born 1957 , baseball player David Paul Baker born 1963 , English former professional footballer David Baker poker player born 1987 , American professional poker player Artists David Baker composer born 1931 , American symphonic jazz composer David Baker poet , American poet David Baker singer , former lead singer for Mercury Rev David Erskine Baker , writer Clergymen Augustine Baker 1575 1641 , English Benedictine mystic, born David Baker David Bristow Baker hndis name Baker, David DEFAULTSORT Baker, David ... more details
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Harold Baker may refer to Harold Baker Liberal politician Harold Trevor Baker PC, 1877 1960 , Financial Secretary to the War Office 1912 1915 H.A. Baker Harold Armstrong Baker, 1881&ndash 1971 , Pentecostal missionary Harold Baker cricketer Harold Frank Baker, 1884 1954 , English cricketer Shorty Baker 1914 1966 , American jazz musician Harold A. Baker Harold Albert Baker, born 1929 , federal judge on United States District Courts in Illinois hndis name Baker, Harold DEFAULTSORT Baker, Harold ... more details
wiktionarypar baker A baker is someone who primarily bakes and sells bread. Baker may also refer to TOCright People Baker surname , various people with the surname last name Baker Places United States Baker, California , in San Bernardino County Baker, Kern County, California Baker Indianapolis, Indiana , listed on the National Registry of Historic Places in Indiana Baker, Louisiana Baker, Missouri Baker, Montana Baker, Nevada Baker Township, Morgan County, Indiana Diocese of Baker in Oregon Mount Baker , in Washington state Baker Trail , a hiking trail in Pennsylvania List of MIT undergraduate dormitories Baker House Baker House , an undergraduate dormitory at MIT Chile Baker Canal Other Baker Island , uninhabited coral island in the Pacific Ocean Baker Street , London, England Baker Street tube station See also Baker River disambiguation , several rivers in North and South America Music Baker Street song Baker Street , song by Gerry Rafferty Ma Baker , song by Boney M Baker s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Baker Street Muse , song by Jethro Tull Military Baker , event of Operation Crossroads , a nuclear weapon test series conducted by the United States in 1946 Baker military ... Baker rifle , used by the British Army Ships USS Baker DE 190 USS Baker DE 190 , a United States Navy destroyer escort in commission from 1943 to 1946 USS Paul G. Baker USS Paul G. Baker , the name of more than one United States Navy ship Other uses Baker Motor Vehicle , an early 20th century electric vehicle Baker scaffolding ref http www.industrialladder.com listProducts.do?categoryID 373 ref Baker Skateboards Baker v. Carr , United States Supreme Court case Baker v. Nelson , Minnesota Supreme Court case Baker v. Vermont , Vermont Supreme Court case Ned Baker , a metasyntactic variable The Baker Street Irregulars , characters in the Sherlock Holmes novels Baker s bourbon Baker s Bourbon whiskey , a Jim Beam Fortune Brands product Baker s Chocolate brand Baker s Drive thru , chain ... more details
Baker River may refer to one of the following rivers In Chile Baker River Chile In the United States Baker River New Hampshire Baker River Washington geodis ... more details
Steven Baker or Steve Baker may refer to Steve Baker baseball born 1956 , major league pitcher Steve Baker footballer born 1962 , English footballer Steve Baker footballer born 1978 , British footballer Steve Baker ice hockey born 1957 , American ice hockey goaltender Steve Baker illusionist , comedian, magician and escape artist Steve Baker motorcyclist born 1952 , former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Steve Baker speedway rider , Australian motorcycle speedway rider Steve Baker, designer of the Space Crusade boardgame Steve Baker UK politician , MP for Wycombe Steven Baker Australian footballer born 1980 Steven Baker, president of Warner Bros. Records, the publisher of Zaireeka See also Stephen Baker disambiguation hndis Baker, Steven DEFAULTSORT Baker, Steven ... more details
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