Baking- to cook by dry heat in an oven.

Advantages of knowing how to bake

1. Baking can be a lucrative hobby.
2. Baking is a creative activity, it can serve as a means of self-expression.
3. Baking could be a means of livelihood.
4. Baking also contribute to the economic stability of the country.
5. Baking helps you develop certain important several values such as cleanliness, economy, diligence, patience and discipline.

History of Baking

·8000 years ago the Swiss lake dwillers learned to mix flour and water which they cooked on heated stones.

·3000 B.C when the first “leaved” bread was accidentally discovered by a baker from the Royal Egyptian household.

·17^th century almost 5000 years later when a scientist found out that the cause of bread expansion through the process of fermentation about by yeast.

· Between 200 and 300 B.C first public bakeries were establish in Greece.

·         1604 baking was brought to America by the Jamestown colonists.

·         17^th century the Spanish missionaries brought wheat into the Philippines to make the Eucharistic bread.

·         Wheat was first grown in Batangas, Laguna, Cavite and Cagayan Valley.

·  1958 the first Philippine flour mill became operational.

· 1962 the U.S wheat associates, Inc. came to the Philippine not only to market wheat but also to improve the baking industry.

· 1958-1976 eight flour mills were established in different parts of the Philippine.