A woodburning fire heats the inside of this replica of an 18th-century-style clay oven that Justin Cherry uses to bake the bread. Known as a beehive, ovens like this were commonplace in households ...

Most Germanic houses built in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries had bake ovens; ... they were widely used well into the 20th Century. To prepare bread for the oven, ...

Bake Oven. 2/7/17 photo by Tim Leedy. ... Heating the drafty houses of the 18th century was another ... the coals under and on top of the Dutch oven give a more steady heat for cooking and baking ...

The Easy-Bake oven has been thrilling kids since 1963. More than 50 million of the toy ovens—which no longer look anything like this retro model—have been sold over the past 50 years.