Winkler Bakery, est. 1807 - Old Salem Museums & Gardens (2024)

C. Winkler Bakery, est. 1807

In 1799, the Moravian Church built a bakery with a living area for the baker and his family. In 1807, a Swiss-born baker named Christian Winkler bought the bakery. Brother Winkler, his wife Elizabeth, and their six children would live and work in this house for the rest of their lives. Winkler descendants resided and worked in the bakery for generations afterward, until 1926. Winkler Bakery’s oven is still heated with wood as it was nearly 200 years ago.

Winkler Bakery, est. 1807 - Old Salem Museums & Gardens (2024)

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Archaeologists have dated grinding stones in Australia as being more than 30,000 years old. This makes Aboriginal people the world's first bakers.

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The world's oldest known cake, baked during the reign of Pepi II in Egypt between BCE 2251 and 2157. Alimentarium, Vevey, Switzerland. The Egyptians gave us the world's oldest known cake–and also the world's oldest Tupperware as it happens.

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