BAKER, one whose business is to bake bread, biscuits, cakes, rolls, etc., for the market. The term is often extended to include those who simply sell bread, cakes and pastry. In the United States, in 1928, there was approximately one baker for every 750 people. The term—baker—is sometimes applied to a portable oven for baking food and less commonly to an artificial fly used for salmon fishing and the ovenbird, so named because it builds an oven-like nest of clay or mud.
See BAKING, BREAD and PASTRY.