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1800 Bread Oven
Originally situated at Georgetown, Merthyr Tydfil and believed to have been built circa 1800 this communal bread oven was removed to St Fagans Museum in 1987.
Before bakeries were common on the high street, the oven would originally have served a number of iron-workers houses with each tenanted house being allocated a baking day so everything baked that day would have to last the week.
It is stated that to get a good heat seal the oven door was sealed with cow dung, I'm not sure what flavours this might have imparted to the baking?!
1800 Bread Oven
Originally situated at Georgetown, Merthyr Tydfil and believed to have been built circa 1800 this communal bread oven was removed to St Fagans Museum in 1987.
Before bakeries were common on the high street, the oven would originally have served a number of iron-workers houses with each tenanted house being allocated a baking day so everything baked that day would have to last the week.
It is stated that to get a good heat seal the oven door was sealed with cow dung, I'm not sure what flavours this might have imparted to the baking?!