According to estimates, there are about half a million bakeries or more on the globe, (Nigeria alone has about 10,000 documented bakeries). Among these are bakeries as old as only yesterday, and some with history and heritage. In style, our team at 'Naija Bakers' Corner' conducted a research to find out.
Although it's not stated outright, the following bakeries are about the oldest bakeries in the world;
1. Hofpfisterei - Founded in the year 1331, with headquarters in Munich, Germany, Hofpfisterei is a German bakery chain. It has about 163 branches and employs about 950 people. Its products are also sold online to countries like Austria, France, Sweden and Switzerland. It's included in the elite league of companies that are over two hundred years old still functioning.
2. Haeberlein Bakery - Also a German bakery, founded in 1492.
3. Edegger-Tax - This is the oldest bakery in Austria still functioning. It was founded in 1569.
4. Metzger Bakery - Another German bakery, founded in 1586.
While we have concentrated on companies that are traditionally in bread making, there are companies like 'Ichinomiya Wasuke' , a Japanese confectionery maker established in the year 1000. We consider it more of a confectionery maker, and therefore did not include it.
From our research, Jack Bakery, in Plymouth, is the oldest bakery in the UK. It was founded in 1596.
Coming down home, we tried to find out the oldest bakery in Nigeria as well. From available data, we could not find any bakeries above two hundred or one hundred years old still functioning in any part of Nigeria. Therefore, we narrowed down our search to bakeries above fifty years. We were able to find a bakery in Ikorodu, Independence Bakery. The bakery was founded before independence in 1960, Originally, it was named Haruna Bakery before the name was changed.
While we rank it as one of the oldest bakeries in Nigeria, we are still continuing our research to find out whether it is the oldest bakery in Nigeria or whether there are other bakeries older. We hope to give you update once we conclude our research.
Pandería Moar in Betanzos, A Coruña, Spain. Founded before 1578
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It was established before 1578 as documents demonstrate it was leased in 21 January 1578 so it existed before then. Still running today by the Moar Family led by Mrs Carmiña Moar. Best Bread and Pies ever in my opinion
Hi, im Kuma, Nigerian.
ReplyDeleteThe oldest bread (wheat flour) bakery in Nigeria has to be in places near ports where our colonial masters came in through. Or in the first capitals or first civilized parts of nigeria even before amalgamation.
That been said, there is a popular lagos bread called the (Agege) Bread.
its arguably the oldest bread in Nigeria.The name Agege gives you an area to start asking questions. Agege is a suburb in Lagos. It's either that one of Lagoss' first bakery is located there or the first set of bread eaten in lagos were moved to Agege first for redistribution in lagos. From an area far or near(might be far as there is an old rail way and station there. So the Agege might be coming in on trains from areas not too close).
Atleast this is heads up.
Though certain areas in Nigeria like the Igbos already milled and oil baked beans as a treat. So question also depends on what is being baked.
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It will be a monastery, probaby attached to St Peter's in Rome baking host for Communion, as for Spain, the oldest near continual bakery will be a convent or monastery.
ReplyDeleteFor Nigeria, Nigeria like all African nations, and India had common famine due to poor agricultural practices which continue on the African Continent to this day, in spite of many Asian countries bar Japan and Indonesia's Java suffering routine famine due to useless corrupt distribution and hoarding (excess and export essential cereals were common throughout Siam, China, Java, Japan which they traded for other commodities such as iron, copper and tin).
Only scarce parts of Africa progressed to the Bronze Age, in the main Africans had no idea or use for the mineral wealth under their feet unless it was alluvial and useful for fetiches.
Hi everyone, I'm not sure why but nobody knows for a bakery called "Imaret" in the capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Sarajevo. Located right across the Bey's Mosque. The bakery exists since year 1531 and next door is the firs public restroom in Europe it dates from year 1530.
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