Bakery Field Trip

We had a lovely trip to a local bakery today.  We learned how they make bread, how it is cut, how the bread rises and gets cooled.  It was lovely.  A fellow homeschooler set it up for our reading group.  What a great outing.  Here are some wonderful pictures of the day!

Our little group before we started the tour, in the front of the bakery.

One of the bakers, making French bread.

Some of the many loaves of bread we saw on the tour.

One of the two large mixers.

The other mixer.

The baker prepping some dough.

The kids near a room beside the oven which they use to make the bread rise.

The ovens.  He said there were over two hundred loaves of bread in it....I think that is how many he said, some crazy amount anyway, lol.

Getting ready to take the bread out of the ovens.

Assembly line for getting the bread out, one person took it out, one person flipped out the pans and another couple people put them on the cooling shelves.

Some of the many, many loaves of bread!

Cutting a loaf for the kids to see.

Bread in the back of the bakery, cooling near the open doors.

The cutting machine.

Our "little" group of homeschoolers after the tour and after their yummy treat of ginger cookies.  As you can see Mr. B has a pack of buns.  We all purchased some yummy, fresh baked goods after the tour.  Yummy!!!