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ROBERT F. BARRATT
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01-01-2002
Baking Industry

Author: ROBERT F. BARRATT

The Canadian baking industry consists of companies that manufacture bread, cakes, pastries and similar perishable bakery products.MANUFACTURING of breadlike products goes back to antiquity, but the first known production of leavened bread occurred in Egypt after the process of fermentation was discovered about 4000 years ago. Modern breads only began appearing a little over 100 years ago.

In early Canada, bread was produced in the home. As communities appeared, small bakeries were established to supply village needs; some of these bakeries gradually evolved into today's major ...

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