Bakery

Bakeries are establishments that produce and sell flour-based food baked in an oven, especially bread. The burden of making bread in a single-family home encourages the purchase of bread from a baker. Time saved is used by goodfolk to better improve their homes and lives in other ways. This is especially important in backcountry places, such as hamlets, where additional time allows residents to better forage or give more time to farm animals and crops. This increases the general food supply, and the variety of food, so that bakeries increase a region's collective health.

In rural settings, farmers pay for their bread with grain provided at harvest time, that allows an account of so many loaves per week throughout the year. Others, except the miller, who pays for bread with flour, must have coin. This makes the bakery in a hamlet or small village a most important facility, a reliable commercial concern and a matter of attention for the whole community. In towns and cities, the baker's guild brings bread to every home within the urban unit.