Bakery
Egyptian model of bakery. On the left is a water-drawer. (Model, Museum of Fine Arts Boston)..

Butter
The primitive, patriarchal way of making butter. The milk is placed in a goatskin `bottle` and rocked to and fro.. A mixture of milk and butter is offered to the guest in a wooden bowl and is a staple food in the desert. An early photograph.
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Fire
Cooking fire under olive tree at Tantur.

Grinding
Limestone statue of a maid grinding corn. 5th Dynasty c. 2650 BC.

Grinding
Village women, seated outside their houses, grinding corn. An early photograph..

Grinding
Two girls grinding corn, still the humblest of tasks. The highest to the lowest was implied by the Pentateuchal record the tenth plague in Egypt bereaved all parents from Pharaoh to the woman grinding meal. An early photograph..

Kneading
The dough which this Palestinian is kneading will be made into loaves baked upon the hot coals, and is not the thin biscuit-bread quickly cooked on the heated outside of the earthenware oven. An early photograph..

Lentil
In the southern desert of Palestine a favourite food is red lentil soup, boiled and long simmered in an iron pot over a fire of brambles and twigs gathered from the thorny shrubs which grow on the hillsides. An early photograph..

Crushing Olives
These Beduin girls have secured a piece of an ancient column and are making it serve as a roller for crushing olives placed on a rock. An early photograph..

Milling
Two women milling flour using traditional grindstones.

Bread
Bakers oven.

Bread
Egypt: Baker kneading dough.

Bread
Egypt: Baker delivering loaves.

Bread
Egyptian baker making loaves in his shop.

Bread
Egyptian oven for baking bread.

Bread
Egyptian bakers.

Bread
Egyptian priest with a basket of loaves.

Bread
Woman rolling out bread.

Bread
Egyptian bakehouse..

Fish
Egyptians curing fish.

Meat
Assyrian kitchen. Killing animals and cooking them..

Meat
Egyptian cooks preparing a feast.

Meat
Egyptian salting and preserving geese.

Milling
Oil mill and press.

Milling
Ass-mill, with a large mill-stone, as implied in Mt.18.6, Lk.17.2, Rev.18.21).

Milling
Egyptian handmill.

Milling
Hand mill (Num.11.8, Jud.16.21, Ex.11.5, Job.31.10-11, Is.47.2, Lam.5.13, Jer.25.10, Rev.18.22, Deut.24.6, Mt.24.41, Lk.17.25, Lam.5.13, Jud.9.53, Jud.9.53, 2Sam.11.21, Job.41.24).

Milling
Women grinding at a mill.

Milling
Women grinding corn.

Onions
Egyptian mode of tying onions.