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This meaning is derived from the early meaning of "toast", which from the 1400s to the 1600s meant warmed bread that was placed in a drink. [32] By the 1700s, there were references to the drink in which toast was dunked being used in a gesture that indicates respect: "Ay, Madam, it has been your Life's whole Pride of late to be the Common Toast ...
Old London Foods, a subsidiary of B&G Foods, is a company best known for its Melba toast products. Originally based in the Bronx and called the King Kone Corporation, the company changed its name to Old London Foods in May 1960 to match their best-known brand of food products, Old London, which had been in use for nearly 25 years.
A toaster oven. Invented in 1910, [3] toaster ovens are small electric ovens that provide toasting capability plus a limited amount of baking and broiling capability. Similarly to a conventional oven, toast or other items are placed on a small wire rack, but toaster ovens can heat foods faster than regular ovens due to their small volume.
These remains predate the earliest-known making of bread from cultivated wheat by thousands of years. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Grinding stones dated at 30,000 years, possibly used for grinding grains and seeds into flour, have in recent years been unearthed in Australia and Europe, although there is no definitive evidence that these tools or their products ...
By the end of the Republic private bakers known as pistores used mills to mass produce bread. Trajan is said to have established a collegium pistorum to help ensure the continuous supply of bread. [7] [1] According to Pliny the Elder's Natural History women were the primary bakers in most families. [8]
Leavened flour bread with saffron and small amount of cardamom powder baked in a clay oven. Tandoor bread: Flatbread India Central Asia Western Asia East Africa: A type of bread baked in a clay oven that is called a tandoor. Teacake: Sweet bun United Kingdom: Fruited sweet bun usually served toasted and buttered. Texas toast: Yeast bread United ...
Toasting fork (1561). One of only two known toasting forks from the 16th century, possibly from Norfolk, England [4]. Toasting forks were traditionally made from metal such as wrought iron, brass, or silver, and later from steel, but handles of wood or ivory might be used to prevent the heat of the fire being conducted to the hand.
It contained heating elements on both sides of the toast, and a spring to make the toast "pop-up" when it was done. Strite soon formed the Waters Genter company and started selling his toaster, known as the "Toastmaster", to restaurants. In 1926, the company began selling a consumer version.