Fort Vancouver Historic Furnishings Report: Bakery

COVER

PREFACE

LIST OF PLATES

LIST OF FIGURES

CHAPTER I. Specific Available Data

CHAPTER II. Comparative Data: The Baking Process during the 1840's

CHAPTER III. Comparative Data: Ovens

CHAPTER IV. Comparative Data: Bakery Layout and Equipment

CHAPTER V. Comparative Data: Other Furnishings

CHAPTER VI. Recommendations

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PLATES

I. Contents of a cache of 1853 [showing a Royal Navy sea biscuit].

II. "Old bake oven" in one of the bastions at Lower Fort Garry, 1935.

III. Reconstructed H.B.C. bake ovens in Northwest Bastion, Lower Fort Garry.

IV. Oven entrance details, Northwest Bastion, Lower Fort Garry.

V. Plan of twin ovens in Northwest Bastion, Lower Fort Garry.

VI. Photograph labeled "bakery fireplaces, c. 1935," Lower Fort Garry.

VII. A typical Hudson's Bay Company square-headed axe. Hand-operated biscuit stamps.

VIII. Utensils employed during demonstrations of early 19th century baking methods, Officers' Kitchen, Fort York

IX. Detail of iron rake or rooker, Officers' Kitchen, Fort York.

X. Interior of H. B. C. Post at Pembina, 1848.

XI. Interior or a Red River settler's house, early 19th century.

1. Foundation plan, 1844 Bakery

2. Loading wood faggots into an English country bake oven

3. A Medieval bakery

4. Diagram of one of two baking chambers in the Stable, Lower Fort Garry

5. Design for an English "common country oven," c. 1830-1860

6. An English bake oven, c. 1847

7. Diagram of a typical French bake oven, c. 1760

8. French bake oven door, c. 1760

9. Drawings of a wood-burning oven recommended for use by the U. S. Army, 1864

10. An early 19th century bakery

11. A two-oven bakehouse in 1842

12. An English bakehouse about 1854

13. "Scaling off" in an English bakery, c. 1854

14. Plans of small peel-oven bakehouses, 1911

15. Canadian tin candlesticks, 1763-1830

16. Various utensils used by French bakers, late 18th century

17. A French baker's rasp, late 18th century

18. One type of single "Canada" stove

19. Kneading trough in an English bakery, c. 1854

20. A wooden dough trough, c. 1903

21. Tin sconces used in Canada, c. 1763-1830

22. Acadian and French Canadian chairs

23. Suggested oven complex design

24. Suggested arrangement of larger furnishings in bakery