Wood-fired ovens in Chch
The days of the wood-fired bakery oven are not over. One oven regularly bakes bread at Ferrymead Historic Park, and the other is used to bake Margaretta pies in Christchurch. (An item in “The Press”; pn Monday reported that New Zealand’s last wood-fired bakery oven, at Rai Valley,: bad cooled down on October 81, probably for the last: time.) Mr R. Fielding, the man»ger of Margaretta Pies, said that the oven used by the firm since 1939, had been built by the Morgan family In 1927. Fired on wood and coke, it burned daily and the new oil-fired automatic oven was used only during rush periods. The oven at Ferrymead had formerly been used by a bakery” at the corner of Clarence Road and Burdale Street in Riccarton, he said.
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