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About Modern Day Bakers Make Cakes From 1900

Step back in time as four modern-day baking professionals tackle 63 years that utterly transformed their trade and our diet: the Victorian Age. Watch the team manage a busy 1900 high-street shop, grapple with complex new recipes (and shocking ingredients like beef tongue and lard), and navigate the intense competition, social mobility, and international influences (like German immigrant bakers) that define the birth of the modern bakery. 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.

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As a society documentary, Modern Day Bakers Make Cakes From 1900 uses modern, bakers, cakes as its central frame. Social documentaries work best as invitations to examine systems through lived experience. Distinguish individual testimony from wider claims, and consider which institutions, incentives and inequalities shape the choices shown.

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Title
Modern Day Bakers Make Cakes From 1900
Category
Society
Runtime
50 minutes
Language
English

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