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Finale Patisserie
- At Sweet Finale, we specialize in creating high quality cakes
and pastries using only the finest and freshest ingredients. We
offer classical European pastries and traditional American desserts.
Sweet Finale, opened in 1994, specializes in creating high quality
cakes and pastries using only the finest and freshest ingredients.
This includes Nouveau cakes, classic European pastries, and traditional
American desserts.
The story behind a loaf of bread
When ancient man discovered a food which would keep through the
winter months, and could be multiplied in the summer, it could
be said that civilization began. He might have a reasonably safe
store of food to carry him over, which would give him time to
develop other useful skills besides hunting, fishing and cattle-herding.
In Old Testament times, all the evidence points to the fact that
bread-making, preparing the grain, making the bread and baking
it, was the women's work, but in the palaces of kings and princes
and in large households, the bakers' duties would be specialised.
Bread was leavened, that is, an agent in the form of a 'barm'
was added to the dough which caused the mixture to rise in the
shape of our familiar loaf. The hurried departure of the Israelites
from Egypt, described in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, prevented
their bread being leavened as usual; the Jews today commemorate
this event by eating unleavened bread on special occasions. The
ruins of Pompeii and other buried cities have revealed the kind
of bakeries existing in those historic times. There were public
bakeries where the poorer people brought their bread to be baked,
or from which they could buy ready-baked bread.
A Bakers' Guild was formed
in Rome round about the year 168 B.C. From then on the industry
began as a separate profession. The Guild or College, called Collegium
Pistorum,* did not allow the bakers or their children to withdraw
from it and take up other trades. The bakers in Rome at this period
enjoyed special privileges: they were the only craftsmen who were
freemen of the city, all other trades being conducted by slaves.
The members of the Guild
were forbidden to mix with 'comedians and gladiators' and from
attending performances at the amphitheatre, so that they might
not be contaminated by the vices of the ordinary people. We suppose
that the bakers, instead of being honoured by the strict regulations,
must have felt deprived by them.
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