[Sca-cooks] Bread Labor
Aldyth at aol.com
Aldyth at aol.com
Tue Oct 30 19:02:26 PDT 2007
Greetings all.
My cooks guild has been having an interesting discussion regarding the
physical labor of making bread. What it mostly boils down to is how long in
period it might have taken to make a loaf of bread. There is a pretty rabid
apprentice in the midst who usually goes down the path of grow your own grain,
grind it, etc. That in turn put the rest of the guild into just how long that
might take. So they started with sewing and growing the grain, how much wheat
would be needed for 5 pounds of flour, then mill it, how long, (I think
they have way too much time on their hands, and I will try and fix it quickly).
Has anyone here gone to the trouble of calculating that? Here is another
left turn. How many man hours of kneading equals 1 hour on the bread hooks of
the Hobart?
We have had a couple of discussions about just how large a kitchen staff
would need to be to pull off a feast for 100, from scratch. It seems the bakers
take up a fair amount of that staff.
Aldyth
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