[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Oven temperature question

[Terry Decker]

Probably English Bread and Yeast Cookery.  It's one of the most
comprehensive books on baking and baking history.  I don't recall complete
instructions for building an oven, but David provides quite a bit of
information about them.

Bear


> I can't find our copy of the book now, but Elizabeth David wrote a book
> about breads wherein she talked about ovens used to bake bread...even
> giving complete directions as to how to build and use one.  I wish I
> could find it because it was so complete that my husband talked about
> building one in our yard...he's actually the one who does the bread
> baking around here...you could put what I know about it on the head of a
> straight pin!!!
>
> Kiri