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Drawing of bake oven

Waln K. Brown
8/20/72
Clifford Falatko

Bake Oven

Sheet iron top

2 1/2' 3'

Door of metal
or wood

There were quite a few bake ovens in Eckley. These bake ovens
were of varying size, some small and others larger. The above
bake oven is one that Mr. Falatko remembers. These bakeovens
were made of either bricks or of stones. A mud solution was
used to hold the bricks or stones together, as well as to fill
in the spaces so heat would not escape from the interior. The
door could be made of either wood or XXXX metal. The top
was a sheet of iron. The fire was built in the ovens, and once
it was hot enough, the fire was removed. The bottom was clean-
ed, and the dough loaves were placed on the bottom. The bottom
of the bake ovens were also lined with either stones or with
bricks. The size of the loaves baked in these bake ovens were
approximately three times the size of bread loaves made today.