Why Was Baking The Most Deadly Job In The Victorian Era? | Victorian Bakers

Four 21st-century bakers bake their way through the era that gave us modern baking as we know it - the reign of Queen Victoria. Experts Alex Langlands and Annie Gray join them to tell the incredible story of our daily bread. The bakers have left the rural bake house and the golden age of baking...

53 min - Food & Drink - Absolute History

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